Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night

Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night

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Cooper John Michael
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Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night addresses tolerance and acceptance in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as Beltane or May Eve, was supposedly an annual witches' Sabbath that centered around the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz Mountains. After exploring how a notoriously pagan celebration came to be named after the Christian missionary St. Walpurgis [ca. 710-79], John Michael Cooper discusses the Night's treatments in several closely interwoven works by Goethe and Mendelssohn. His book situates those works in their immediate personal and professional contexts, aswell as among treatments by a wide array of other artists, philosophers, and political thinkers, including Voltaire, Lessing, Shelley, Heine, Delacroix, and Berlioz. In an age of decisive political and religious conflict, Walpurgis Night became a heathen muse: a source of spiritual inspiration that was neither specifically Christian, nor Jewish, nor Muslim. And Mendelssohn's and Goethe's engagements with it offer new insights into its role in Europeancultural history, as well as into issues of political, religious, and social identity -- and the relations between cultural groups -- in today's world. John Michael Cooper is Professor of Music at Southwestern University and author of Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony (Oxford University Press).
EAN 9781580462525
ISBN 1580462529
Binding Hardback
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Publication date May 15, 2007
Pages 306
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152
Country United States
Authors Cooper John Michael
Illustrations 15 b/w. 20 line.
Series Eastman Studies in Music