Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic: Production and Recption (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

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Contents: Provincialism, modernity, and the classical heritage : the administrative structure of the GDR and the situation of music production / Tatjana Böhme-Mehner -- Classicism as anti-fascist heritage : realism and myth in Ernst Hermann Meyer's Mansfelder Oratorium (1950) / Golan Gur -- Positioning Georg Knepler in the musicological discourse of the GDR / Lars Fischer -- Ehrt euren deutschen Meister : reproducing Wagner in the GDR / Peter Kupfer -- The embodiment of collective memory in Neue Odyssee / Jessica Payette -- Marxism and feminism in Ruth Berghaus's staging of Don Giovanni / Johanna Frances Yunker -- Beyond the Gewandhaus : Mahler and the GDR / Juliane Schicker -- Hanns Eisler's funeral and cultures of commemoration in the GDR / Martha Sprigge -- Exile--remigration--socialist realism : the role of classical music in the works of Paul Dessau / Matthias Tischer -- "What a satisfying task for a composer!" : Paul Dessau's music for the German story (...Du und mancher Kamerad) / Martin Brady and Carola Nielinger-Vakil -- Friedrich Schenker and the third way / Jonathan L. Yaeger -- A prism of East German music : Lothar Voigtländer / Albrecht von Massow.