| Series |
Music and society (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.)
Music and society (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.) ^A286397
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| Contents |
The rise of urban musical life between the revolutions, 1789-1848 / Alexander L. Ringer -- Paris: centre of intellectual ferment / Ralph P. Locke -- Vienna: bastion of conservatism / Sigrid Wiesmann -- Berlin: 'Music in the air' / Christoph-Hellmut Mahling -- Dresden and Leipzig: two bourgeois centres / Sieghart Döhring -- Italy: the centrality of opera / John Rosselli -- London: the professionalization of music / Joel Sachs -- Moscow and St Petersburg / Gerald R. Seaman -- The USA: a quest for improvement / Kathryn Bumpass -- Latin America: independence and nationalism / Gerard Béhague. |
| Abstract |
The music considered in this volume comes from one of the most turbulent periods of European history: the period between the French Revolution, in 1789, and the series of upheavals of 1848. The events of this period, which also saw the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Wars and a new and widespread assertion of national identity, had a powerful impact on musical culture. This was the time of Beethoven and Schubert, Chopin and Schumann, Berlioz and Liszt, Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, the young Wagner and the young Verdi. The chapters in this book, treating the musical culture of the great European cities, show a picture with many powerful contrasts. |
| General note | "Originally conceived in conjunction with the television programmes, Man and music, of which the first was shown by Channel 4 in 1986"--Preface. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 0132223996 (hrd.) |
| ISBN | 0132223325 (pbk.) |
