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Modern German Music - Recollections and Criticisms

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Klappentext Lively descriptions of the musical life of German cities! and extended essays on Spohr! Beethoven! Schubert and Mendelssohn. Zusammenfassung This two-volume survey of German music! from 1854! offers lively descriptions of the musical life of German cities! and extended essays on Spohr! Beethoven! Schubert and Mendelssohn! but Chorley is by no means an uncritical observer! noting with concern the rise of nationalism in Germany after 1848. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Weimar and Leipsic: 1. Leipsic in 1839-40; 2. Traces of Bach; 3. Musical journalism; Part II. Dr Spohr's Music: 1. A criticism; Part III. A Glance at Vienna: 1. Traditions of Vienna; 2. Down the Danube; 3. Autumn music and dancing; 4. The Leopoldstadt theatre and Mozart; 5. Austrian influences on art; 6. Schubert and his music; Part IV. Music in the Rhineland: 1. Rhine scenery; 2. The opera at Frankfort, 1844; 3. The Beethoven festival at Bonn, 1845; 4. Beethoven's music at Bonn; 5. Beethoven as an influence; 6. Music at Liege and Cologne; 7. Mademoiselle Lind in opera; Part V: The Last Days of Mendelssohn; 1. The last days of Mendelssohn.

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Authors Henry Fothergill Chorley
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 20.07.2009
 
EAN 9781108001601
ISBN 978-1-108-00160-1
No. of pages 432
Series Cambridge Library Collection -
Cambridge Library Collection - Music
Modern German Music 2 Volume Paperback Set
Subject Humanities, art, music > History

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