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Sara Levy's world : gender, Judaism, and the Bach tradition in enlightenment Berlin /

"Sara Levy née Itzig (1761-1854), a salonnière, skilled performing musician, and active participant in enlightened Prussian Jewish society, played a powerful role in shaping the dynamic cultural world of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Berlin. A patron and collector of music, sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Cypess, Rebecca (Editor), Sinkoff, Nancy, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018.
Series:Eastman studies in music ; v. 145.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What was the Berlin Jewish salon around 1800? / Marjanne E. Goozâe
  • Sara Levy's musical salon and her Bach collection / Christoph Wolff
  • Remaining within the fold : the cultural and social world of Sara Levy / Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
  • Women's voices in Bach's musical world : Christiane Mariane von Ziegler and Faustina Bordoni / George B. Stauffer
  • Lessing and the limits of Enlightenment / Martha B. Helfer
  • Poetry, music, and the limits of harmony : Mendelssohn's aesthetic critique of Christianity / Elias Sacks
  • Longing for the sublime : Jewish self-consciousness and the St. Matthew Passion in Biedermeier Berlin / Yael Sela
  • Duets in the collection of Sara Levy and the ideal of "Unity in multiplicity" / Rebecca Cypress
  • The sociability of salon culture and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's quartets / Steven Zohn.