A01=Richard Kramer
affect
art
audience
Author_Richard Kramer
bach
beethoven
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NHD
Category=NL-HB
cherubino
chromatic moment
COP=United States
diderot
die entfuhrung aus dem serail
Discount=15
discovery
enlightenment
epiphany
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eq_history
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escape
figaro
Format=BB
Format_Hardback
gender
gluck
goethe
haydn
HMM=229
IMPN=University of Chicago Press
iphigenie en tauride
ISBN13=9780226377896
klopstock
konstanze
Language_English
lessing
mozart
music
nonfiction
opera
PA=Available
PD=20161216
performance
poetry
Price_€20 to €50
prosody
PS=Active
PUB=The University of Chicago Press
realization
recognition
silence
sonata
strophic song
Subject=History
WMM=152
women
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- ISBN 9780226377896
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 23 Nov 2016
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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For the Enlightenment mind, from Moses Mendelssohn's focus on the moment of surprise at the heart of the work of art to Herder's imagining of the seismic moment at which language was discovered, it is the flash of recognition that nails the essence of the work, the blink of an eye in which one's world changes. In Cherubino's Leap, Richard Kramer unmasks such prismatic moments in a range of iconic instrumental works by Emanuel Bach, Haydn, and Mozart; in the musical engagement with the formidable odes of Friedrich Klopstock; and, on the grand stage of opera, at the intense moment of recognition in Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride and the exquisitely introverted phrase that complicates Cherubino's daring escape in Mozart's Figaro. Finally, the tears of the disconsolate Konstanze in Mozart's Entf hrung inspire a reflection on the tragic aspect of the composer's operatic women. Other players from literature and the arts Diderot, Goethe, Lessing among them enrich the landscape of this journey through the Enlightenment imagination.
Richard Kramer is distinguished professor emeritus of music at the CUNY Graduate Center. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of the award-winning Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and Unfinished Music.
