Mendelssohn, Berlioz, and Wagner as Conductors: The Origins of the Ideal of "Fidelity to the Composer"
Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: As conductors of other composers' music, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, and Wagner professed the desire to be faithful in some sense to the conducted work, but each understood this fidelity differently. Mendelssohn and Berlioz saw performance as recreative, while Wagner was the first to regard it as a creative or interpretive act.
Source: Performance Practice Review
Author: Jose Antonio Bowen
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2086707153