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‘Georges Duthuit’s Le Rose et le noir : Disseminating Walter Pater’s The Renaissance in the 1920s’
2023
My proposal presents a lesser-known study of Walter Pater published in 1923 (?) by a young undergraduate named Georges Duthuit (1891-1973). Hovering between different subjects, arguments, portraits, and disciplines, Le Rose et le noir was the first book-length publication of Duthuit, at the time having just obtained his Licence d’anglais (BA) in 1921, and about to embark on a career as a distinguished art historian specialized in Byzantine studies. Duthuit soon stood as a distinguished Franco-British mediator in art matters, a committed scholar and administrator and, later in the 1940s, an editor of Transition. He remains arguably an outstanding art historian but I would like to focus on hi…
Appunti per una biografia di Alexander Zemlinsky in Europa (1871-1938)
2012
Il saggio delinea un profilo biografico e artistico di Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) nel periodo compreso fra l'esordio compositivo e l'esilio in America. In particolare, vengono considerati i suoi rapporti con Alma Mahler, con Arnold Schoenberg e, più in generale, con la Scuola musicale di Vienna e l'ambiente culturale della capitale austrica. Per quanto riguarda il linguaggio compositivo di Zemlinsky, viene considerato soprattutto il suo rapporto con l'idea del superamento della sintassi tonale nell'opera teatrale "Der Zwerg" (Il nano, 1919-21) e nella "Lyrische Symphonie" del 1922-23.