Kurt Weill as Modernist
| Title: | Kurt Weill as Modernist |
| Author: | Albright, Daniel |
| Citation: | Albright, Daniel. 2000. Kurt Weill as modernist. Modernism/modernity 7(2): 273-284. |
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| Abstract: | Kurt Weill seems the opposite of a Modernist when compared with Schoenberg, or with the fictitious composer Adrian Leverkühn in Mann’s Doktor Faustus–composers who seem furiously to reject the warm-hearted, gemütlich aesthetic of much nineteenth-century art. But in such works as Die Dreigroschenoper and Der Jasager, Weill, like Thomas Mann himself, shows himself a Modernist of a sophisticated sort by devising a new sort of irony, an irony that does not reject bourgeois values but instead dwells in an interspace between derision and warmth. |
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