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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Franz Schubert; Franz Schubert; Franz Schubert; Franz Schubert |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Raymond Erickson |
ISBN: | 0300070802 9780300070804 |
OCLC Number: | 36675984 |
Notes: | "An Aston Magna Academy book"--Page [i]. |
Description: | xvi, 283 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Part one. Politics and social life. Vienna in its European context / Raymond Erickson -- People, class structure, and society / Waltraud Heindl -- The Congress of Vienna / Enno Kraehe -- Part two. Musical life. "Classic" and "Romantic" Beethoven and Schubert / Leon Plantinga -- Vienna, city of music / Alice M. Hanson -- Social dancing in Schubert's world / Elizabeth Aldrich -- Part three. The other arts. Architecture and sculpture / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- Viennese Biedermeier painting / Gerbert Frodl -- The poetry of Schubert's songs / Jane K. Brown -- The Viennese theater / Simon Williams -- Afterword: Vienna's Schubert / Ernst Hilmar. |
Series Title: | Aston Magna Academy book. |
Responsibility: | edited by Raymond Erickson. |
Abstract:
Considers the culture, society and politics of Franz Schubert's Vienna and its influence on the composer. The text examines Vienna's history and politics, its class structure and social conventions, the entertainments and the art, architecture and the literary current.
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