John Gabriel

Reimagining China in Interwar German Opera: Eugen d’Albert’s Mister Wu and Ernst Toch’s Der Fächer

John Gabriel

Book Chapter  |  2021

This chapter examines how Germany and China’s changed relationship after World War I and Germany’s forced decolonization affected ..

“What Exactly Is China” in Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler’s Die Maßnahme (The Measures Taken)

John Gabriel

Book Chapter  |  2021

The Chinese setting of Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler’s teaching piece Die Maßnahme (The Measures Taken, 1930) has vexed the work..

There and Back Again: Zeitoper and the Transatlantic Search for a Uniquely American Opera in the 1920s

JOHN GABRIEL

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of the Society for American Music

This article argues that in the late 1920s, the German genre of Zeitoper paradoxically became an essential component of the search..

Harry Hay, the Mattachine Society, and Musicology’s Role in the early U.S. Gay Rights Movement

John Gabriel

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2018

Twentieth-Century Ideologies of Late Style in the Reception of Elliott Carter’s Music

John Gabriel

Journal article  |  2018  |  Elephant & Castle: Laboratorio dell’imaginario

This paper analyses how 20th-century ideologies of late style shaped the reception of American composer Elliott Carter (1908-2012)..

Keller, Hans

John Gabriel

Reference Work  |  2017

Lowinsky, Edward

John Gabriel

Reference Work  |  2017

Salzer, Felix

John Gabriel

Reference Work  |  2017

Geiringer, Karl

John Gabriel

Reference Work  |  2017

Ernst Krenek’s Leben des Orest and the Idea of a Meyerbeer Renaissance in Weimar Republic Germany

John Gabriel

Book Chapter  |  2016