Artist-Operas of Pfitzner, Krenek and Hindemith

This is the first book-length study of the genre of ''artist-opera'', in which the work''s central character is an artist who is uncomfortable with his place in the world. It investigates how three such operas (Pfitzner''s Palestrina (1915), Krenek''s Jonny spielt auf (1926) and Hindemith''s Mathis der Maler (1935)) contributed to the debate in early twentieth-century Germany about the place of a...