6/7/2023 0 Comments Lucy Gayheart by Willa CatherSo when in the 1930s Cather wrote Lucy Gayheart, a novel about a young musician, its focus on the development of an artist imbued with the author’s own artistic propensities was to be expected. Especially German music, like the operas of Richard Wagner, accompanied her throughout her whole life, while in her later years German art songs took precedence, possibly because their aesthetics paralleled her own. This was not so much on account of her ethnicity as her familiarity with European immigrants on the one hand, and her awareness of and personal preference for certain cultural values, on the other. However, the distance between them is shortened by Cather’s life and work having been strongly impacted by European culture. Conclusion: From Romanticism to ModernismĪ contextualization between a twentieth-century American novelist, Willa Cather, and two representatives of German romanticism, Wilhelm Müller and Franz Schubert, seems to be a rather unusual undertaking. Willa Cather and Franz Schubert: Parallels in Aestheticsĩ. The Work: Where Europe and America MeetĦ. From West to East: The Emergent Writerĥ.5. From East to West: Cather’s Reculturationĥ.4. Franz Schubert: Creator of the German Liedĥ.3. Wilhelm Müller: An Extraordinary Poet behind an Ordinary NameĤ.
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