Opera in the Viennese Home From Mozart to Rossini

Domestic musical arrangements of opera provide a unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making. These arrangements flourished in especially rich variety in early nineteenth-century Vienna. This study reveals ways in which the Viennese culture of musical arrangements opened up opportunities, especially for women, for connoisseurship, education, and sociability in the home, and extended the meanings and reach of public concert life. It takes a novel stance for musicology, prioritising musical arrangements over original compositions, and female amateurs' perspectives over those of composers, and asks: what cultural, musical, and social functions did opera arrangements serve in Vienna c.1790-1830? Multivalent musical analyses explore ways Viennese arrangers tailored large-scale operatic works to the demands and values of domestic consumers. Documentary analysis, using little-studied evidence of private and semi-private music-making, investigates the agency of musical amateurs and reinstates the central importance of women's roles.

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• Authors: Nancy November, Nancy (University of Auckland) November, November Nancy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.01.2024
• EAN: 9781009409803
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0940980-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 250 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; austria, MUSIC / General, English, Vienna, german, Opera, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, C 1700 To C 1800, Art music, orchestral and formal music, For higher / tertiary / university education, Western "classical" music