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Joseph E. Morganis assistant professor of musicology at Middle Tennessee State University. He has also served on the faculties of the New England Conservatory, Brandeis University, and Boston University. His research focuses on the dramatic music, theory and aesthetics of Germany in the early nineteenth century, and he has presented and published articles on E. T. A. Hoffmann, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Giacomo Meyerbeer, and Carl Maria von Weber.
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction-The Problem with Oberon
Chapter 1: Early German Nationalism
Chapter 2: The Development of Weber’s Adult Style
Chapter 3: Romantic Transformations
Chapter 4: Why London? Why Wieland? Why Oberon?
Chapter 5: Planché and the Libretto
Chapter 6: Sir Huon’s Adventure
Chapter 7: Sir Huon and Reiza’s Bond of Love
Chapter 8: Fulfillment of the Oath
Chapter 9: The Reception of Oberon
Epilogue: The Decline of Cosmopolitan Nationalism
Bibliography
Index
About the Author