Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage [Hardcover]

Caryl Clark (Author)

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Hardcover: 262 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (Sep 28 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521455472
ISBN-13: 978-0521455473
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 558 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,222,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #54 in Books > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Classical > Scores > Composers > Haydn

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'This is an important study, one that does its part to rehabilitate Haydn's image by stripping away the patina of geniality and naive bumpkinry associated with 'Papa' to reveal a more human figure, complex and multifaceted in his contradictions. Haydn's Jews is a significant contribution to scholarship on the composer and his time.' Notes

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This book was first published in 2009. This fascinating study of ethnic theatrical representation provides original perspectives on the cultural milieu, compositional strategies, and operatic legacy of Joseph Haydn. The portrayal of Jews changed markedly during the composer's lifetime. Before the Enlightenment, when Jews were treated as a people apart, physical infirmities and other markers of 'difference' were frequently caricatured on the comedic stage. However, when society began to debate the 'Jewish Question' - understood in the later eighteenth century as how best to integrate Jews into society as productive citizens - theatrical representations became more sympathetic. As Caryl Clark describes, Haydn had many opportunities to observe Jews in his working environments in Vienna and Eisenstadt, and incorporated Jewish stereotypes in two early works. An understanding of Haydn's evolving approach to ethnic representation on the stage provides deeper insight into the composer's iconic wit and humanity, and to the development of opera as a cultural art form across the centuries.

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