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Pages : 28

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Author: Nicholas Mathew
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022681985X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Analyzing the final three decades of Haydn’s career, this book uses the composer as a prism through which to examine urgent questions across the humanities. In this far-reaching work of music history and criticism, Nicholas Mathew reimagines the world of Joseph Haydn and his contemporaries, with its catastrophic upheavals and thrilling sense of potential. In the process, Mathew tackles critical questions of particular moment: how we tell the history of the European Enlightenment and Romanticism; the relation of late eighteenth-century culture to incipient capitalism and European colonialism; and how the modern market and modern aesthetic values were—and remain—inextricably entwined. The Haydn Economy weaves a vibrant material history of Haydn’s career, extending from the sphere of the ancient Esterházy court to his frenetic years as an entrepreneur plying between London and Vienna to his final decade as a venerable musical celebrity, during which he witnessed the transformation of his legacy by a new generation of students and acolytes, Beethoven foremost among them. Ultimately, Mathew asserts, Haydn’s historical trajectory compels us to ask what we might retain from the cultural and political practices of European modernity—whether we can extract and preserve its moral promise from its moral failures. And it demands that we confront the deep histories of capitalism that continue to shape our beliefs about music, sound, and material culture.

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Languages : en
Pages : 874

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Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Harold Reeves (Firm)
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Owain Tudor Edwards
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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The repertory he cites is virtually unknown, says Edwards, and was written by equally unknown composers, most of whom never rose above local fame and none of whom made a fortune. He lists sources, concertos for various solo instruments, works by publisher, information about lost concertos, and the work of the prolific composers such as Charles Avison and William Corbell.

Author: Susan Wollenberg
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351571214
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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In recent years there has been a considerable revival of interest in music in eighteenth-century Britain. This interest has now expanded beyond the consideration of composers and their music to include the performing institutions of the period and their relationship to the wider social scene. The collection of essays presented here offers a portrayal of concert life in Britain that contributes greatly to the wider understanding of social and cultural life in the eighteenth century. Music was not merely a pastime but was irrevocably linked with its social, political and literary contexts. The perspectives of performers, organisers, patrons, audiences, publishers, copyists and consumers are considered here in relation to the concert experience. All of the essays taken together construct an understanding of musical communities and the origins of the modern concert system. This is achieved by focusing on the development of music societies; the promotion of musical events; the mobility and advancement of musicians; systems of patronage; the social status of musicians; the repertoire performed and published; the role of women pianists and the 'topography' of concerts. In this way, the book will not only appeal to music specialists, but also to social and cultural historians.

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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