Schubert in the European imagination. / Scott Messing.

Author/creator Messing, Scott
Format Book
PublicationRochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, ©2007.
DistributionWoodbridge : Boydell & Brewer
Descriptionxii, 315 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
SeriesEastman studies in music
Eastman studies in music. ^A494093
Contents Political culture and Schubert's Stadtpark monument -- 1897: the politics of a Schubert year -- Gustav Klimt's Schubert -- Schubert and Jung-Wien: Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal -- Schubert, modernism, and the Fin-de-Siècle science of sexuality -- Peter Altenberg's Schubert -- Arnold Schoenberg's Schubert.
Abstract This book examines the composer's historical and cultural reception by Viennese modernists. By 1900, issues of gender had crossed with those of nationalism, especially in thecity that came to consider Schubert as its favorite musical son. As the author here explains and explores in rich detail, composers, writers, and visual artists manipulated the conventions of the composer and gender in ways that critiqued the very culture that had created this image. In order to expose the hypocrisy of social relationships, painter Gustav Klimt and writers Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Peter Altenberg exploited the collision between innocence and sexuality, and Schubert was a readily familiar sign for the former. The composer Arnold Schoenberg substituted his own formulation of Schubert in place of the older, popular conceptions of the composer, adding him to an illustrious list of figures whose significance he sought to redesign. The concept of Schubert as a feminine type began in 1838. This work examines the historical reception of Schubert as conveyed through the gendered imagery and language of 19th and early 20th century European culture. The figures discussed include Musset, Sand, Nerval, Maupassant, George Eliot, and others.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 273-300) and index.
ISBN9781580462136 (hbk.)
ISBN1580462138 (hbk.)

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Music Music Stacks ML410.S3 M4721 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold