Bibliographic citations
Fortuna, A., (2023). La Alpensinfonie y su lugar en el proceso de maduración intelectual y artística de Richard Strauss [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/26167
Fortuna, A., La Alpensinfonie y su lugar en el proceso de maduración intelectual y artística de Richard Strauss []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/26167
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title = "La Alpensinfonie y su lugar en el proceso de maduración intelectual y artística de Richard Strauss",
author = "Fortuna Ramirez, Arthur Jean-Luc",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2023"
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The following research focuses on the second cycle of tone poems by Richard Strauss (located between the years 1895-1915) but particularly on the Alpensinfonie (Op. 64), an oeuvre that closes Strauss’s facet in this genre. Although nowadays his work is being more studied, little has been seen about the tone poems–and even less about the last one–, likely, due to its philosophical implications, which demand an holistic study of the composer’s intellectual growth and work. The relevance of this research comes not only from the fact that it explores a little-studied dimension of the late Romanticism’s programmatic tradition or the aesthetic and spiritual legacy of Ricard Strauss but also from the fact that, with it, I try to delve into the interdisciplinary boundaries of musicology itself. The main objective of this research is, therefore, to identify in what sense the Alpensinfonie represented a milestone in the maturation of Strauss’s aesthetic and ethical vision. Likewise, it can be said that the task of presenting an interpretation of the Alpensinfonie implies the comprehension of its musical functioning and its extra-musical representation. To do this, I am taking the conception of leitmotivs as semiotic units as a basis that allow discourses to be structured and narratives to dialogue with traditional musical forms. In this manner, the route that I propose is structured in three parts. In the first one I will address Strauss’s apprenticeship years up to the beginning of the composition of the second cycle of tone poems. Here I will talk about the decisive influences of Franz Strauss Sr., his friends and mentors Hans von Bülow and Alexander Ritter and the guidance of important theorists and thinkers such as Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche. In the second part, I will focus on the first five tone poems of the second cycle, through which Strauss expresses his own artistic and professional crisis. Finally, I dedicate myself to the study of the sketches (compiled and arranged by Rainer Bayreuther) and to the narrative analysis of the final version of the Alpensinfonie. All of this will allow me to account for the link that this oeuvre has with its predecessors and with the composer himself
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