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Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- A musical-analytical postscript
- 1. Guntram and the crisis of German musical metaphysics
- 2. Elan vital: Feuersnot, Salome, and radical individualism
- 3. The way to the social: Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier
- 4. Intermezzo: Ariadne and her transformations
- 5. The marriage operas: Die Frau ohne Schatten, Intermezzo, and Die agyptische Helena
- 6. Composing without Hofmannsthal: Arabella and Die schweigsame Frau
- 7. The politics of peace: Friedenstag and Daphne
- 8. Opera in time of war: Die Liebe der Danae and Capriccio.