Ethos and Politics in the Poetry of Stefan George

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Petropulos
Keyword(s):  
Stefan George

Alban Berg

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Adhesion Strength ◽  
String Quartet ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Alban Berg ◽  
German Translation ◽  
Stefan George ◽  
Strength Tests ◽  
Parallel Texts

When Austrian composer Alban Berg was working on his opera Lulu, he wrote three Baudelaire songs as a Konzertaria entitled Der Wein. Premiered in 1930, Der Wein is a large-scale work for voice and orchestra. Berg uses a German translation by Stefan George, but the published score is in parallel texts, accommodating the French verse line. The chapter also considers a ‘hidden’ Baudelaire setting from Berg’s 1926 Lyric Suite for string quartet. The analysis covers: (a) the context of composition; (b) the connections established between selected poems; (c) the statistical data generated from the adhesion strength tests; and (d) how the data shape an evaluation of Berg’s settings of Baudelaire. Evidence suggests that Berg’s settings of Baudelaire are loosely entangled; the highly prescriptive score affects syntax, semantics, and prosody. Yet, because Der Wein has stood the test of time, the settings are deemed loosely accretive.

Begegnung mit Stefan George

1943 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Lienhard Bergel ◽  
Herbert Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Stefan George

Stefan George, Dichtung und Kundung

1966 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 733
Author(s):  
I. Hilton ◽  
Melitta Gerhard
Keyword(s):  
Stefan George
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