Music Criticism in Vienna 1896-1897 - Critically Moving Forms

Zusatztext She opens her study with invaluable thumb-nail sketches of the various Viennese newspapers and journals in which music critics published their work ... this book reveals a wealth of detail about musical life in Vienna ... This study is ... very welcome. That the technical quality of the book's production is outstanding goes without saying, and there is an excellent index. Zusammenfassung Music Criticism in Vienna is a close study of the work of some two dozen music critics in Vienna in the fifteen months from October 1896 to December 1897, a period which saw the deaths of Bruckner and Brahms and the rise of Mahler and Richard Strauss. It reconstructs in detail the climate of musical debate in a major centre around the turn of the century.

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• Authors: Mccoll, Sandra McColl, Sandra (Postdoctoral Research Fellow Mccoll
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.03.1996
• EAN: 9780198165644
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816564-4
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Oxford Monographs on Music; Oxford Monographs on Music; Oxford University Press (UK)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history