Music and monumentality : commemoration and wonderment in nineteenth-century Germany /
A few weeks after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein raised his baton above the ruins of the Berlin Wall and conducted a special arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The central statement of the work, that "all men will be brothers," captured the sentiment of those...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : perspectives on musical monumentality
- The time of musical monuments
- Musical apotheoses
- Sounding souvenirs
- Classical values
- Collective historia
- Faustian descents
- Epilogue : Beethoven's Ninth at the Wall.