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Zusatztext "Wolff combines history and music at an extraordinarily deep level and on a particularly large scale....[He shows] that the Singing Turk and associated figures, values, and musical elements had, indeed, played a paramount role in the construction of European identity, and that operatic stages had been primary venues for the articulation of that process....Never before has a study been able to illustrate this intricate process with such completeness and richness." Informationen zum Autor Larry Wolff is Professor of History and Director of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. He is the author of Paolina's Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice , The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture , Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment , and Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment —all published by Stanford University Press. Visit Larry Wolff's website at www.singingturk.com Klappentext Larry Wolff is Professor of History and Director of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. He is the author of Paolina's Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice , The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture , Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment , and Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment ¿all published by Stanford University Press. Visit Larry Wolff's website at www.singingturk.com Zusammenfassung While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century! European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio . Rossini created a series of works! including The Italian Girl in Algiers . And these are only the best known of a vast repertory. This book explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire! the great nemesis of Christian Europe! became so popular in the opera house and what they illustrate about European-Ottoman international relations. After Christian armies defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683! the Turks no longer seemed as threatening. Europeans increasingly understood that Turkish issues were also European issues! and the political absolutism of the sultan in Istanbul was relevant for thinking about politics in Europe! from the reign of Louis XIV to the age of Napoleon. While Christian European composers and publics recognized that Muslim Turks were! to some degree! different from themselves! this difference was sometimes seen as a matter of exotic costume and setting. The singing Turks of the stage expressed strong political perspectives and human emotions that European audiences could recognize as their own. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Captive Sultan: Operatic Transfigurations of the Ottoman Menace after the Siege of Vienna 2. The Generous Turk: Captive Christians and Operatic Comedy in Paris 3. The Triumphant Sultana: Suleiman and His Operatic Harem 4. The Turkish Subjects of Gluck and Haydn: Comic Opera in War And Peace 5. Osmin in Vienna: Mozart's Abduction and the Centennial of the Ottoman Siege 6. "To Honor the Emperor": Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph Ii in the Age of Enlightened Absolutism 7. The Ottoman Adventures of Rossini and Napoleon: Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala 8. Pappataci and Kaimakan: Reflections in a Mediterranean Mirror 9. An Ottoman Prince in the Romantic Imagination: The Libertine Adventures of Rossini's Turkish Traveler 10. Maometto in Naples and Venice: The Operatic Charisma of the Conqueror 11. Rossini's Siege of...
