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Zusatztext it does more than simply provide historical background to questions of present-day importance; one of the most impressive features of this book is its multilayered treatment of its topic, constantly using the attitudes and practices of one period to interrogate those of the others ... [this monograph] makes an original and highly stimulating contribution to both musicology and cultural history. Informationen zum Autor Alexander Rehding is Professor of Music at Harvard University and co-editor of Acta musicological. His research specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century music and in the history of music theory. He is the author of Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Klappentext This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory. In examples including Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner and Bruckner, Rehding explores how monumentality contributes to an experiential music history and how it conveys the sublime to the listening public. Zusammenfassung This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory. In examples including Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner and Bruckner, Rehding explores how monumentality contributes to an experiential music history and how it conveys the sublime to the listening public. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Preface Introduction - Facets of musical monumentality 1: - Musical Apotheoses 2: - Sounding Souvenirs 3: - Classical Values 4: - Collective Historia 5: - Faustian Descents Epilogue - Beethoven's Ninth at the Wall Bibliography Index
