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| Material Type: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sandra McColl |
| ISBN: | 0198165641 9780198165644 |
| OCLC Number: | 32970280 |
| Description: | xiv, 246 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The Papers and the Critics -- 2. The Richness of Everyday life -- 3. Civil Politics and Musical Opinion -- 4. The Politics of Art in the Aftermath of Wagner -- 5. The 'Canon' in the Concert Hall -- 6. Opera, Drama, and the Artwork of the Future. |
| Series Title: | Oxford monographs on music. |
| Other Titles: | Critically moving forms |
| Responsibility: | Sandra McColl. |
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Abstract:
Music Criticism in Vienna 1896-1897 records a culture in which music criticism had achieved the status of a minor art-form. The period covered - October 1896 to December 1897 - was an eventful time in Vienna. Bruckner died, then Brahms; Mahler arrived; premieres of works by Czech composers coincided with increasing tension in the Empire between Czechs and Germans; Puccini's La Boheme reached Vienna on its sensational progress around the world; and the great programme music debate continued.
These events and issues were recorded and debated by some two dozen critics ranging from Eduard Hanslick, widely credited with (and blamed for) raising music criticism to an art, to Heinrich Schenker. The focus of Sandra McColl's book is unashamedly on the critics themselves, and her reconstruction of the climate of debate about whatever music or musicians came to their notice.
She illuminates the intellectual climate in which the music was created, performed, and received, and provides a foundation for the study of music criticism in the post-Hanslick generation.
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- Musical criticism -- Austria -- Vienna.
- Music -- Austria -- Vienna -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 19th century.
- Music -- History
- Vienna (Austria)
- Critique musicale -- Autriche -- Vienne.
- Musique -- Autriche -- Vienne -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
- Musique -- Philosophie et esthétique.
- Vienne (Autriche) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
- Musikleben.
- Musikkritik.
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