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Abstract: Wagner's music dramas and aesthetic writings galvanized the cultural
life of Paris, Berlin, and Vienna in the fin-de-siècle. Claude Debussy and Arnold
Schoenberg were two leading composers that matured during the polemical epoch following
Wagner's death. Each incorporated Wagnerian elements into his own works but later sought to
separate from Wagner's example. We can see and hear the ... read moreintensity of their compositional
struggles and attempted schism from Wagner in their 1902 operatic and 1903 symphonic tone
poem settings of Pelléas et Mélisande (1892) by Belgian
Symbolist writer Maurice Maeterlinck. This comparison of Debussy's and Schoenberg's Pelléas
settings examines how the composers position themselves in relation to the Wagnerian
tradition. Why was each composer drawn to Maeterlinck's play at the same time in different
musical capitals? How did Maeterlinck's play offer each young composer a way to develop his
own compositional style, and how did this respond to Wagner?
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2013.
Submitted to the Dept. of Music.
Advisor: Joseph Auner.
Committee: Jane Bernstein, and Alessandra Campana.
Keyword: Music.read less
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