"Some Strange Temptation to Evil": Salieri as Literary Type and the Queerness of Musical Crime in 19th-Century Fiction.

Walter Thornbury's "The Old Chapel-Master" (1873) and Edward Prime-Stevenson's "When Art Was Young: A Romance in Two Parts"/"Aquæ multæ non—" (1883/1913) both grapple with acts of musical crime in ways that invite potential queer readings and unexpected reflections on the strange afterlives of the m...

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Published in:	Journal of Musicological Research Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 44 - 72
Main Author:	Franseen, Kristin M.
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd 2025
Subjects:	Queer theory Salieri, Antonio, 1750-1825 Fiction Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791 Composers Betrayal Plagiarism Art forgeries Stereotypes
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