Author: Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: David Mason Greene
Publisher: Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.
ISBN: 0385142781
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 1548

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Author: David Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135773297
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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First Published in 1990. Information about individual operas and other types of musical theater is scattered throughout the enormous literature of music. This book is an effort to bring that data together by comprehensively indexing plots and descriptions of individual operatic background, criticism and analysis, musical themes and bibliographical references. The principal audience for this general reference guide will be for the non-specialist, but its hoped that persons specialising in opera would also find it useful.

Author: Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Karl Kraus
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300207670
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Kraus's iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, The Last Days of Mankind remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus's play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War, when mankind raced toward self-destruction by methods of modern warfare while extolling the glory and ignoring the horror of an allegedly "defensive" war. This volume is the first to present a complete English translation of Kraus's towering work, filling a major gap in the availability of Viennese literature from the era of the War to End All Wars. Bertolt Brecht hailed The Last Days as the masterpiece of Viennese modernism. In the apocalyptic drama Kraus constructs a textual collage, blending actual quotations from the Austrian army's call to arms, people's responses, political speeches, newspaper editorials, and a range of other sources. Seasoning the drama with comic invention and satirical verse, Kraus reveals how bungled diplomacy, greedy profiteers, Big Business complicity, gullible newsreaders, and, above all, the sloganizing of the press brought down the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the dramatization of sensationalized news reports, inurement to atrocities, and openness to war as remedy, today's readers will hear the echo of the fateful voices Kraus recorded as his homeland descended into self-destruction.

Author: John Clark Ridpath
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Switzerland
Languages : en
Pages : 714

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Author: Wilma Abeles Iggers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401507392
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Carl Spitteler
Publisher: London and New York, G. P. Putnam's sons
ISBN:
Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Author: Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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