The necessity of music : variations on a German theme /

In The necessity of music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German social...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Applegate, Celia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Places
  • How German is it?
  • Music in place
  • Musical itinerancy in a world of nations
  • Music at the fairs
  • Part II. People
  • Mendelssohn on the road
  • A.B. Marx's cosmopolitan nationalism
  • Schumann's German nation
  • The musical worlds of Brahm's Hamburg
  • Part III. Public and private
  • What difference does a nation make?
  • Men with trombones
  • Women's Wagner
  • Hausmusik in the Third Reich
  • To be or not to be Wagnerian in Leni Riefenstahl's films
  • Saving music.