Haydn's Jews
Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage
- Author: Clark, Caryl
to reveal a more human figure, complex and multifaceted in his contradictions. Haydn's Jews is a significant contribution to scholarship on the composer and his time —
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Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of musical examples
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Limping Devil and the Jew on stage
- 2. Jews in Haydn's world
- 3. The apothecary as Jew in Lo speziale
- 4. Hirschfield, Mahler, and the fin-de-siecle revival of Lo speziale as Der Apotheker
- Epilogue: Der Apotheker in the twentieth century
- Appendix: Hirschfield's review of Der Apotheker in the Wiener Abendpost, February 1899
- Bibliography
- Index.