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Word: glovanni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potential of dramatic expression in music" which all later composers accepted, Schrade claimed. He called Gluck's attempts to reform this style "fruitless discussion," and said that in Wagner's music dramas "unbridled passion still remained the basis." If Mozart did not write a "full-blown" tragedy in Don Glovanni, the opera at least "betokened the features of tragedy" because "no sharp bound can be set where comedy ends and tragedy begins...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Schrade Discusses Fate In Development of Opera | 2/14/1963 | See Source »

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