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‖ Gesamtkunstwerk|gəˈzamtkʊnstvɜːk|
[G., f. gesamt total + kunstwerk work of art.]
In the æsthetic theory of Richard Wagner (1813–83), an ideal work of art in which drama, music, and other performing arts are integrated and each is subservient to the whole.
1939B. Fles tr. Křenek's Music Here & Now 223 Wagner went so far as to lower his orchestra into a cavity below the audience's line of vision to emphasize the illusionary character of his Gesamtkunstwerk, or ‘symbiosis of the arts’. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xix. 356 In his Gesamtkunstwerk all the individual arts were supposed to give up something of their own nature in order to create a higher unity. 1948L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. iv. 160 The nephew..lends his voice to imitating an orchestra..and impersonating a Wagnerian-like Gesamtkunstwerk. 1966Listener 6 Oct. 517/3 Whether Gascoyne saw his poem in the light of a Gesamtkunstwerk I'm not qualified to say. |