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Carl Maria von Weber is recognized as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music. Morgan walks readers through Weber's masterpieces, providing key insights by integrating critical points in the composer's life and the burgeoning Romantic and Nationalist movements in Germany that Weber's music came to champion.
List of contents
Chapter One: A Child Born into a Changing World: The Juvenalia
Chapter Two: Romantic Wanderings in Napoleon's Europe: The First Adult Works
Chapter Three: Communion with Friends: The Concertos and Abu Hassan
Chapter Four: The Patriot Emerges: Patriotic Songs, the Song Cycle, The Concertino, The Concertante, and the Cantata
Chapter Five: Toward the German Opera: The Masses and Great Instrumental Works
Chapter Six: The Dark Huntsman and the Libretto: Der Freischütz
Chapter Seven: Fame and Infirmity: Euryanthe, Concertstück in f minor.
Chapter Eight: The Last Commission: Oberon
Chapter Nine: Death and Memory: The Fantastic Three Overtures
About the author
Joseph E. Morgan is assistant professor of musicology at Middle Tennessee State University. He has also served on the faculties of the New England Conservatory, Brandeis University, and Boston University. He is the author of Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon and Cosmopolitanism in the Early German Romantic (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014)
Summary
Carl Maria von Weber is recognized as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music. Morgan walks readers through Weber’s masterpieces, providing key insights by integrating critical points in the composer's life and the burgeoning Romantic and Nationalist movements in Germany that Weber's music came to champion.
