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Gesamtkunstwerk

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Gesamtkunstwerk (German: ‘total work of art’). A term used to describe the cooperation of several arts in a single expressive aim. The term was coined by the composer Richard Wagner in his book Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (The Artwork of the Future, 1849), although the idea of uniting music, poetry, the visual arts, and dance is as old as opera. Subsequently the term has been applied (often retrospectively) to various ensembles embracing painting, sculpture, and architecture or other combinations of arts (see Baroque, for example).

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Gesamtkunstwerk

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Gesamtkunstwerk (Ger.). Unified work of art. Wagner's term for a dramatic work in which drama, music, poetry, song, and paintings should be united into a new and complete art-form. This theory is expounded in his Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (The Art-work of the Future, 1849).

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MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Gesamtkunstwerk." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-Gesamtkunstwerk.html

MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Gesamtkunstwerk." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-Gesamtkunstwerk.html

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