SZYMANOWKI AS POST-WAGNERIAN: THE LOVE SONGS OF HAFIZ, Op.24 (Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities)
by Stephen C Downes 

Examines in detail each of the six Songs of Hafiz (1911) in terms of specific features of musical language; the influence of Wagner, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche on Szymanowski (1882-1937); orientalism and the realist/idealist debate in 19th-century Poland and Germany; and Szymanowski's later music. 

Hardcover: 364 pages
Publisher: Garland Science (4 Mar 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0815316348
ISBN-13: 978-0815316343