What is it about?
Focusing on the premiere of Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde in the Budapest Opera House in 1901, the study critically evaluates whether and how the musical tastes of the Hungarian opera-going public changed in response to the introduction of Wagnerian staging techniques.
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Why is it important?
The research puts the Hungarian reception and fin-de-siecle musical culture in the Italian cultural orbit, rather than the German one.
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It would appear that as late as 1901 the embourgeoisiement and urbanisation of opera has not yet fully happened in the Budapest Opera House, which might be representative of a whole array of European musical centres at the time.
Dr Markian Prokopovych
Durham University
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This page is a summary of: From Gypsy Music to Wagner without a Transition ? The Musical Taste of the Budapest Urban Public in the Late Nineteenth Century, December 2010, Bohlau Verlag,
DOI: 10.7767/boehlau.9783205790488.69.
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