Music in Vienna: 1700, 1800, 1900

The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has long been associated with many of the most significant composers in Western music - from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, through the Strauss family, Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, to Mahler, Lehár, Schoenberg and Webern. Today, v...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Wyn Jones, David 1950- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2017
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:BSB01
UBG01
Volltext
Zusammenfassung:The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has long been associated with many of the most significant composers in Western music - from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, through the Strauss family, Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, to Mahler, Lehár, Schoenberg and Webern. Today, venerable institutions like the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Staatsoper and the Vienna Boys' Choir, together with the shared pride of residents and visitors in its musical inheritance, ensure that the image of a musical city is undimmed.<BR> This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900, an approach which allows the very different relationships between music and society that existed in each of these periods to be distinguished. Patronage, social function and audience are key considerations, set within wider political and cultural developments. The volume is populated by emperors, princes, performers, publishers and writersas well as composers, and deals with institutional and commercial characteristics alongside representative individual works. <I>Music in Vienna</I> focusses on the political and social role of music, broadening our understanding of the city as a musical capital. It will appeal to a wide readership, including music historians and political, cultural and social historians, as well as the interestedgeneral reader.<BR><BR> DAVID WYN JONES is Professor of Music at Cardiff University
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2017)
Telling tales of music in Vienna -- 1700. Music at the imperial and royal court ; Catholicism, ritual, and ceremony ; Italian opera and the preservation of the Habsburg dynasty -- 1800. Court, aristocrats, and connoisseurs ; Demand, aspiration, and the ennobling of the spirit ; Music, war, and peace -- 1900. Vienna, city of music ; 'Seid umschlungen, Millionen' ; From Johann Strauss to Richard Strauss
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 277 pages)
ISBN:9781782048312

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen