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Introduction / José Ignacio Suárez García ; Ramón Sobrino Sánchez -- Symphonic works by western European composers. Zum Orchester in Beethovens Symphonien / Christian Speck ; "Und es soll wahrhaft kein Choral darin vorkommen": On Mendelssohn's use of chorales in his symphonies / R. Larry Todd ; Transformed Abruzzi: Harold en Italie, the récit de voyage, and French romantic visual culture / Virginia Whealton ; Gustav Mahler's adagio movements and his evolving symphonic structures / James L. Zychowicz ; Dramaturgical functions of solos in Richard Strauss's symphonic poems / Vadim Rakochi -- Johannes Brahms: a case study. Brahms's symphonism / George S. Bozarth ; On meaning in Brahms's symphonies / Jacquelyn Sholes ; Dvorak's Fifth symphony: a politically incorrect inspiration for Brahms's third? / David Hurwitz -- National approaches to symphonic literature. Le 'Sinfonie' Giovanili di Antonio Bazzini: una ricognizione / Marino Pessina ; The Sociedad de Conciertos de Madrid (1866-1903) and the Unión Artístico-Musical (1877-1891): from the reception to the creation of a symphonic repertoire in Spain / Ramón Sobrino Sánchez ; The last symphonies of Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford: a journey towards structural compression / Jeremy Dibble ; Legacies of romanticism in the early Soviet symphony / Pauline Fairclough -- Musical performance venues, organizations, and entertainment systems. The concertante symphony as 'musical metaphor': the role of orchestral music in the concert practice of liberal Lisbon (1822-1853) / Francesco Esposito ; La orquesta del G. T. del Liceu de Barcelona: organización y funcionamiento en los conciertos sinfónicos de la segunda mitad del s. xix / Francesc Cortès ; Los conciertos populares en el ámbito madrileño: la búsqueda de nuevos públicos y la urgencia por europeizar el sistema musical / Andrea García Torres ; From a bourgeois concern to a matter of social urgency: legitimization and institutionalization of symphonic music in Stockholm, 1890-1926 / Mia Löwengart -- Musical practices, reception, and criticism. Pitched battles? Vocal health and the British pitch debate in the late nineteenth century / Chloe Valenti ; Wagner en los conciertos sinfónicos: su recepción en Madrid en el siglo xix (1864-1901) / José Ignacio Suárez García ; The issues of programme and absolute music in the writings of the leading Croatian 19th-century musicologist Franjo Ksaver Kuha" (1834-1911) / Stanislav Tuksar -- Abstracts -- Biographies -- Index of names. |
| Abstract |
This volume deals, from multiple perspectives, with the complex world of European symphonism during the nineteenth century, a period in which it encompassed not only the creation of musical products and performances, but also significantly affected many compositional approaches, as well as aesthetic factors, such as the opposition between programme and absolute music. The emergence of the great symphony orchestras led to unprecedented types of professional interaction, and new forms of patronage. It also fostered the creation of a specific repertoire, and the construction of the first purpose-built concert halls. These developments originated in Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, in conjunction with the growth of music destined for increasing orchestral formations and the concert as a social phenomenon, available to the common public. About twenty authors discuss in this volume issues about analysis and musical creation, repertoire, musical aesthetics and criticism, orchestras and symphonic ensembles, musical performing venues, production system, consumption, entertainment system and the dissemination and reception of symphonic models in Europe. Through the work of Beethoven, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mahler, Strauss, among others, the volume addresses these and other aspects across the European geography and in different contexts: Spain, Italy, French, Portugal, United Kingdom, Northern Europe and Eastern Europe. |
