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Zusatztext Brodbeck's outstanding book explores manifestations of German nationalism in fin-de-siècle Viennese music and documents the important role that music criticism played in its development. Informationen zum Autor David Brodbeck is Professor of Music at the University of California, Irvine. He has published widely on nineteenth-century topics ranging from the dances of Schubert and the sacred vocal music of Mendelssohn to various aspects of Brahms's music and the musical culture of Liberal Vienna. His article "Hanslick's Smetana and Hanslick's Prague" won the 2010 H. Colin Slim Award of the American Musicological Society. Klappentext Defining Deutschtum engages the political-cultural milieu of Liberal Vienna through the discourse of three generations of music critics. Author David Brodbeck argues that Vienna's music critics were important agents in the public sphere whose writings gave voice to distinct, sometimes competing ideological positions. Zusammenfassung Defining Deutschtum engages the political-cultural milieu of Liberal Vienna through the discourse of three generations of music critics. Author David Brodbeck argues that Vienna's music critics were important agents in the public sphere whose writings gave voice to distinct, sometimes competing ideological positions.
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Defining Deutschtum engages the political-cultural milieu of Liberal Vienna through the discourse of three generations of music critics. Author David Brodbeck argues that Vienna's music critics were important agents in the public sphere whose writings gave voice to distinct, sometimes competing ideological positions.
