Ariadne Transformed: The Strauss-Hofmannsthal Collaboration on the "Ariadne auf Naxos"-Workgroup

• Main Authors: Chen, Yi-Wen, 陳怡文
• Other Authors: Lo, Kii-Ming
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66nkd3

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 音樂學系 === 106 === According to the Strauss Werkverzeichnis (by Franz Trenner, 3rd edition, Munich, 1999), the TrV 228 includes four versions. The first two versions (TrV 228、TrV 228a) carry the title “Ariadne auf Naxos.” The former, consisting of the “opera” Ariadne auf Naxos and the Strauss’s “incidental music” for Hofmannsthal’s adaptation of the play Der Bürger als Edelmann, was premiered in Stuttgart on 25 October 1912. The later, which is performed more often nowadays, was premiered in Vienna on 4 October 1916. The third version (TrV 228b), premiered at Deutsches Theater Berlin on 9 April 1918, is Strauss’s incidental music for the play Der Bürger als Edelmann. The fourth version (TrV 228c), premiered in Vienna on 31 January 1920, is orchestral suite selected from the number for the play Der Bürger als Edelmann. This dissertation calls these four versions together as “works related to Ariadne auf Naxos.” Among the four works of Ariadne auf Naxos, the public is most familiar with the second and the fourth works, but it is not clear how the context works. In view of this, this dissertation puts the presentation of the genesis, the creative process and the textual analysis together to clearly show the meaning and their relationship of each musical-theatrical work. The first section of the chapter Two of the thesis presents the creation process and work structure of the 1912 version; the second section focuses on the detached comedy Der Bürger als Edelmann, namely the 1918 version; the third section is centered on the 1920 orchestral suite. Chapter Three disscusses the “opera” part of the 1912 version. Chapter Four focuses on the 1916 version and compares it with the 1912 one. As conclusion, the dissertation reveals the way how the composer and dramatists interacted with music and text, respectively, and how their creative thinking had transformed during the almost eight years of collaboration.