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Veranstaltungsreihe: Collegium Musicologicum
Vortrag

Music, the Historical & the Problem of Temporal Representation in Rosenkavalier

Online Gastvorlesungsreihe am Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft

Termine

Do., 10.12.2020
18:00 Uhr

Standort

Am Kupfergraben 5.Institutsgebäude

Eintritt

frei

Benedict Taylor (University of Edinburgh)
Music, the Historical, and the Problem of Temporal Representation in Der Rosenkavalier

Der Rosenkavalier is an opera which foregrounds time: the problem of time, as transience, passing, and ultimately death for the ageing Marschallin, and also contrasts this with a potentially more redemptive quality, the category of the Augenblick, the intersection of the temporal with the eternal, associated with the young lovers Octavian and Sophie.  It is also a work that has traditionally marked the turning point in Strauss's relation to historical time and the idea of musical progress, the composer supposedly retreating from the modernity of Salome and Elektra towards a more conservative idiom.  The temporal qualities manifested in Der Rosenkavalier invite comparison with another work from this period that similarly foregrounds the concept of time, Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg. In this self-styled 'novel of time', Mann raises a number of problems concerning the human limitations on perceiving time and its artistic representation, especially with regard to music.  Disputing the contention made by the narrator of Mann's novel that music cannot 'narrate time', I show that Strauss's music in fact perfectly exemplifies music's capacity to express 'the historical in time', in this way using Der Rosenkavalier as a case study for addressing the philosophical problem of temporal representation in art.  I argue that Der Rosenkavalier – both Hofmannsthal's text and Strauss's music – is in several significant ways 'an opera about time': the temporal and the eternal, the historical, and what I will call the 'meta-historical'.

Benedict Taylor is Reader and Director of Research in Music at the University of Edinburgh. He received his MA and PhD from St Catharine's College, Cambridge, subsequently holding fellowships at Heidelberg, Princeton, and Berlin, and he worked previously at Oxford as Lecturer in Music and Senior Research Fellow at Magdalen and New College. Prof. Taylor's research and teaching interests include musical temporality and subjectivity, theory and analysis (especially 19th-century form and late-Romantic harmonic practice), philosophy, and the history of music c. 1770–1945 (with particular focus on Mendelssohn, besides the music of Haydn, late Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, and Schumann; British music; and late Romantic music). He is the author of four monographs, the latest of which is Arthur Sullivan: A Musical Reappraisal (2017); he has also edited five further books including Rethinking Mendelssohn (Oxford University Press, 2020).  Prof. Taylor is also co-editor of Music & Letters and he serves on the editorial board of Music Analysis.


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Veranstalter: Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft
Referenten: Prof. Dr. Benedict Taylor

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Kontakt

Dr. Sydney Hutchinson
Telefon: 030 2093-2062
hutchins@hu-berlind.de

Adresse

Am Kupfergraben 5.Institutsgebäude
Raum: Online

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