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Music in Vienna : 1700, 1800, 1900 /

The image of Vienna as 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, Lehar, Schoenberg and Webern. Today, ven...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wyn Jones, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Telling tales of music in Vienna
  • 1700. Music at the imperial and royal court. Angelica, vincitrice di Alcina: an opera for the Habsburgs ; Three emperors : Leopold I, Joseph I and Karl VI ; Music in a fortress city ; Music and Habsburg identity
  • Catholicism, ritual, and ceremony. The regulation of the liturgy ; Leopold I and pietas austriaca ; Johann Joseph Fux : composer and theorist
  • Italian opera and the preservation of the Habsburg dynasty. Opera, representation and identity ; A coronation in Prague (1723) : political unity and musical conservatism.
  • 1800. Court, aristocrats, and connoisseurs. Mozart's coronation opera, Haydn's Te Deum ; Music and the Habsburg dynasty, music and the Habsburg family ; The aristocracy as leaders of private and public taste in music ; Prince Nicolaus Esterházy and Prince Joseph Lobkowitz ; Women play and sing their part : a forgotten history
  • Demand, aspiration, and the ennobling of the spirit. Music in the market place ; Behind closed doors : piano, song and string quartet ; Music in Vienna in 1808 : the view of a patriot
  • Music, war, and peace. In tempore belli ; 1792-1799 The First Coalition to the Peace of Campo Formio ; 1799-1805 The Second Coalition to the Treaty of Lunéville ; 1805-1809 The Third Coalition to the Peace of Pressburg ; 1809-1813 The siege of Vienna to the Treaty of Schönbrunn ; 1813-1815 The Fourth Coalition to the Congress of Vienna ; A glorious moment, a new future, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.
  • 1900. Vienna, city of music. Documenting the musical world ; Institutions and venues in the First District ; Beyond the Ringstrasse
  • 'Seid umschlungen, Millionen.' Otto Nicolai concert, 18 February 1900 ; Beethoven and Wagner, Mozart and Haydn ; Memorialization and monumentalism ; Johann Strauss dedicates a waltz to Brahms
  • From Johann Strauss to Richard Strauss. The Waltz King turns to operetta ; Old Vienna, new Vienna ; Richard Strauss and the future operatic ideal.