CHAPTER 4 Nations, States, and Peoples
Romantic Opera in Germany (Mozart, Weber), France (Auber, Meyerbeer), and Russia (Glinka)
Richard Taruskin
Up to now we have seen peasants on the operatic stage only as accessories. They represented their class, not their country. The elevation of Volkstümlichkeit to the status of a romantic ideal changed all that. It happened first, of course, in Germany, the land where das Volk was first “discovered.” And the first operas in which the new concept of das Volk showed up were the nineteenth-century descendants of the vernacular comic operas known as singspiels, “plays with singing.”
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- Richard Taruskin. "Chapter 4 Nations, States, and Peoples." The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford University Press. New York, USA. n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2024. <https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume3/actrade-9780195384833-chapter-004.xml>.
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- Richard Taruskin. "Chapter 4 Nations, States, and Peoples." In Music in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press. (New York, USA, n.d.). Retrieved 12 Nov. 2024, from https://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume3/actrade-9780195384833-chapter-004.xml
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