The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music

Lorna Fitzsimmons is Professor of Humanities at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She has taught an interdisciplinary Lives of Faust course for over a decade. She is also the editor of Lives of Faust: The Faust Theme in Literature and Music. A Reader; International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation; Goethe's Faust and Cultural Memory: Comparatist Interfaces; and Faust Adaptations from Marlowe to Aboudoma and Markland. She is currently writing two book monographs on the Faust theme. Charles McKnight is Associate Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He holds a PhD in Music from Cornell University, specializing in Russian music. A professional trombonist in New York City for eighteen years, he performed with ballet orchestras such as the American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and the Joffrey Ballet. As an academic he teaches music history, music theory, and Russian studies.

Introduction
Charles Mcknight and Lorna Fitzsimmons

Part I Symphonic, Choral, Chamber, and Solo Faust Works

1. Selected Settings from "Auerbachs Keller"
Alberto Rizzuti

2. Musical Remembering in Schubert's Faust Settings
Marjorie Hirsch

3. Berlioz, Faust, and the Gothic
Julian Rushton

4.Schumann's Struggle with Goethe's Faust
Laura Tunbridge

5. Ideas of Redemption and the Total Artwork in Wagner's Encounters with Faust
Thomas S. Grey

6. Liszt's Faust Complexes
Jonathan Kregor

7.Gounodian Fausts by Pablo de Sarasate, Joan Baptista Pujol, and Felip Pedrell I Sabaté
Rolf Bäcker

8. Mahler's Eighth and the Faust Symphonic Tradition
James L. Zychowicz

9.Hanns Eisler and Faust in the German Democratic Republic
Joy H. Calico

10. The Paradoxical Faust Cantatas of Adrian Leverkühn and Alfred Schnittke
Charles Mcknight

Part II Faust In Opera

11. Louis Spohr's Tragic Faust
Clive Mcclelland

12. The Genesis, Transformations, Sources, and Style Of Gounod's Faust
Vincent Giroud

13. Mefistofele Triumphant--From the Ideal to the Real
Michele Girardi

14. Extending the Reach of Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust
Marc-André Roberge

15. The Faustian and Mephistophelean Worlds in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
Maureen A. Carr

16. Havergal Brian's Gothic Opera Faust
Jürgen Schaarwächter

17. The Serial Concept in Pousseur's Votre Faust
Andre Brégégère

18. History and Faust in Doctor Atomic
Rebecca Cypress

19. Reflections of the Contemporary Schizophrenia in Josef Berg's Two Versions Of Johanes Doktor Faust
Martin Flasar

20. Pascal Dusapin's New Lyrical Style in Faustus, the Last Night
Jacques Amblard

Part III Faust In Ballet And Musical Theater

21. Faust Goes Dancing
Kristin Rygg

22. Heinrich Heine's Faust Ballet Scenario,1846-1948
David Conway

23. The American Musical and the Faustian Bargain
Raymond Knapp

24. Faust Rocks the Stage (Not)
Elizabeth L. Wollman

25. Helen Gifford's Marlovian Regarding Faustus
Mark Carroll

Index