Szymanowski's "King Roger": the opera and its origins
Karol Szymanowski (1881-1937), the most important Polish composer after Chopin, wrote only two operas, the second of which, King Roger, completed in 1924, is a masterpiece. After decades of neglect this magnificent work has begun to receive more attention around the world, and this first extended st...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Karol Szymanowski (1881-1937), the most important Polish composer after Chopin, wrote only two operas, the second of which, King Roger, completed in 1924, is a masterpiece. After decades of neglect this magnificent work has begun to receive more attention around the world, and this first extended study of King Roger investigates its origins, uncovers its ideology, examines its music and documents its history. The book opens with an outline of the role the theatre played in Szymanowski's career, from his early operetta, Lottery for Husbands, and the rousing ballet panotmime, Harnasie, based on legends from the Polish highlands. In tracing the evolution of King Roger from conception to completion, Alistair Wightman, one of the leading Szymanowki scholars, examines the contribution of the co-librettist, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, and serveys the various strands which make up its ideology, from Euripides ("The Bacchae") and Plato ("Phaedrus" and "The Symposium") to works by Pater, Nietzsche, Merezhkovsky and Micinski. He charts Szymanowski's fascination with the historical background of the opera, the world of the twelfth-century ruler of Norman Sicily, Roger II (1095-1154). Szymanowski's own novel, "Efebos", written in 1918-19 and only partially preserved offers intriguing parallels with his opera. Szymanowski's opulent score, with its references to Byzantine chant and Arab music, is analysed with the aid of numerous examples, and the study is rounded off with an account of the performance and reception history of this breathtakingly beautiful work. ALISTAIR WIGHTMAN has written extensively about Polish music of the early twentieth century. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160), discography (pages 161-162) and indexes |
| Beschreibung: | 171 S. Ill., Notenbeisp. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780907689911 |
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Contents
Foreword Page Sir Antonio Pappano 9
Introduction 11
Acknowledgements 15
I Cast and Synopsis 17
II Szymanowski and the Theatre 19
III The Writing of King Roger 41
IV The Ideology of King Roger 63
V The Music of the Opera 93
Act One 95
Act Two 109
Act Three 124
VI Performance History: A Brief Survey 135
VII Conclusion 157
Select Bibliography 159
Discography 161
Index of Szymanowski s Works 163
General Index 165 |
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