The New Shudder

This book focuses on the romantic magic opera of Spohr, Weber and Marschner and proposes a new understanding of musical romanticism, according to which it does not lose its affiliation with modernity and its impact on the present for the sake of the fantastic, but rather gains it in the first place. The author examines the Romantic opera and other works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Wagner, analyses the associated music-aesthetic discourse, which was determined by Tieck, Hoffmann and Horn, A. B. Marx, Brendel and Pohl, and traces it back to considerations by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and Jean Paul.

A Redefinition of Musical Romanticism The Fantastic as a Central Category of Cultural Modernity With studies on Romantic opera and Schumann's "Manfred"

Autorentext

Christian Kämpf studied musicology, theology and journalism in Leipzig, Halle/Saale and Jena and received his doctorate in cultural studies from the University of Bremen in 2019.

Inhalt
Concept, state of research, problem.- The fantastic between imitation of nature and poetic truth.- The fantastic between social reality and musical progress.- The fantastic of musical romanticism and musical modernism after 1900.