The Don Giovanni Moment Essays on the Legacy of an Opera (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts)

by Daniel Herwitz (Author), Lydia Goehr (Author), Daniel Herwitz (Author), Lydia Goehr (Author), Lydia Goehr (Author)

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  2008

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  Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions. This book examines the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. It addresses the opera's impact on the philosophical visions of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Williams.