Daily Life in the Vienna of Mozart and Schubert
Author: Marcel Brion
Publisher: [London] : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cosmopolitan city from 1789 to 1850.
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Musical Life in Biedermeier Vienna. [Illustr.] (1. Publ.) - Cambridge [usw.]: Cambridge Univ. Press (1985). 241 S. 8°
Author: Alice M. Hanson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780521257992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the impact of the daily life, political climate and artistic institutions of Vienna on its musicians and musical tastes between 1815 and 1830. Emphasis is given to Beethoven, Schubert, Paganini and Johann Strauss where their careers reflect typically Viennese musical life and when Viennese conventions may explain important turns in their lives. Attention is also paid to the incomes, service contracts and welfare of lesser-known musicians of the same period. An entire chapter is devoted to the regulation of music by the Austrian government, secret police and censors, since this period coincides with the height of Metternich's political power. Although the study is mainly intended for music historians and listeners, the book should also interest the Austrian, literary, theatre and political historian. Furthermore, the research presented here suggests that many of the intriguing questions and social issues in Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century, currently widely discussed by Schorske, Toulim and McGrath, are already present in Vienna in 1815.
Schubert's Vienna
Author: Raymond Erickson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780300070804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Vienna in which Franz Schubert lived for the thirty-one years of his life was not just a city of music, dance, and coffeehouses - a centre of important achievements in the arts. It was also the capital of an empire that was constantly at war in the composer's youth and that became a police state during his maturity.
The Lives and Times of the Great Composers
Author: Michael Steen
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 1129
ISBN-13: 1848312679
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A glorious plum-pudding of a book, to be consulted, with pleasure and profit, over and over again' Sir Jeremy Isaacs Michael Steen's 'Great Composers' was originally published in 2003. A lifetime's work and almost 1000 pages long, it has since become 'the' reference point and key read on the biographical backgrounds to classical music's biggest names. Authoritative and hugely detailed - but nonetheless a joy to read - this new edition will expand its readership further and capitalise on a newfound popular interest in classical music. Steen's book helps you explore the story of Bach, the respectable burgher much of whose vast output was composed amidst petty turf disputes in Lutheran Leipzig; or the ugly, argumentative Beethoven in French-occupied Vienna, obsessed by his laundry; or Mozart, the over-exploited infant prodigy whose untimely death was shrouded in rumour. Read about Verdi, who composed against the background of the Italian Risorgimento; or about the family life of the Wagners; and, Brahms, who rose from the slums of Hamburg to become a devotee of beer and coffee in fin-de-siecle Vienna, a cultural capital bent on destroying Mahler ... and much, much more.
New Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Author: Peggy Woodford
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2016-09-05
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1783238615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Thinking Space
Author: Leona Rittner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1317014138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe cafe is not only a place to enjoy a cup of coffee, it is also a space - distinct from its urban environment - in which to reflect and take part in intellectual debate. Since the eighteenth century in Europe, intellectuals and artists have gathered in cafes to exchange ideas, inspirations and information that has driven the cultural agenda for Europe and the world. Without the café, would there have been a Karl Marx or a Jean-Paul Sartre? The café as an institutional site has been the subject of renewed interest amongst scholars in the past decade, and its role in the development of art, ideas and culture has been explored in some detail. However, few have investigated the ways in which cafés create a cultural and intellectual space which brings together multiple influences and intellectual practices and shapes the urban settings of which they are a part. This volume presents an international group of scholars who consider cafés as sites of intellectual discourse from across Europe during the long modern period. Drawing on literary theory, history, cultural studies and urban studies, the contributors explore the ways in which cafes have functioned and evolved at crucial moments in the histories of important cities and countries - notably Paris, Vienna and Italy. Choosing these sites allows readers to understand both the local particularities of each café while also seeing the larger cultural connections between these places. By revealing how the café operated as a unique cultural context within the urban setting, this volume demonstrates how space and ideas are connected. As our global society becomes more focused on creativity and mobility the intellectual cafés of past generations can also serve as inspiration for contemporary and future knowledge workers who will expand and develop this tradition of using and thinking in space.
The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's Winterreise'
Author: Marjorie W. Hirsch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-04
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1108832849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible multi-disciplinary exploration of Franz Schubert's haunting late song cycle Winterreise (1827) that combines context and different analytical approaches.
The Cambridge Companion to Mozart
Author: Simon P. Keefe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-05-22
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1139826646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Mozart paints a rounded yet focussed picture of one of the most revered artists of all time. Bringing the most recent scholarship into the public arena, this volume bridges the gap between scholarly and popular images of the composer, enhancing the readers' appreciation of Mozart and his extraordinary output, regardless of their prior knowledge of the music. Part I situates Mozart in the context of late eighteenth-century musical environments and aesthetic trends that played a pivotal role in his artistic development and examines his methods of composition. Part II surveys Mozart's works in all of the genres in which he excelled and Part III looks at the reception of the composer and his music since his death. Part IV offers insight into Mozart's career as a performer as well as theoretical and practical perspectives on historically informed performances of his music.
Viennawalks
Author: J. Sydney Jones
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1466865903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViennawalks by J. Sydney Jones is the classic walking guidebook of the Austrian capital from the Henry Holt Walks Series. It includes four intimate walking tours of Vienna's most historic and enchanting neighborhoods, with maps, photos, and a selected list of restaurants and shops.
In Praise of Commercial Culture
Author: Tyler COWEN
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0674029933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoes a market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the current intellectual and popular balance and to encourage a more favorable attitude toward the commercialization of culture that we associate with modernity. Economist Tyler Cowen argues that the capitalist market economy is a vital but underappreciated institutional framework for supporting a plurality of co-existing artistic visions, providing a steady stream of new and satisfying creations, supporting both high and low culture, helping consumers and artists refine their tastes, and paying homage to the past by capturing, reproducing, and disseminating it. Contemporary culture, Cowen argues, is flourishing in its various manifestations, including the visual arts, literature, music, architecture, and the cinema. Successful high culture usually comes out of a healthy and prosperous popular culture. Shakespeare and Mozart were highly popular in their own time. Beethoven's later, less accessible music was made possible in part by his early popularity. Today, consumer demand ensures that archival blues recordings, a wide array of past and current symphonies, and this week's Top 40 hit sit side by side in the music megastore. High and low culture indeed complement each other. Cowen's philosophy of cultural optimism stands in opposition to the many varieties of cultural pessimism found among conservatives, neo-conservatives, the Frankfurt School, and some versions of the political correctness and multiculturalist movements, as well as historical figures, including Rousseau and Plato. He shows that even when contemporary culture is thriving, it appears degenerate, as evidenced by the widespread acceptance of pessimism. He ends by considering the reasons why cultural pessimism has such a powerful hold on intellectuals and opinion-makers.
