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Author: Charles Burney
Publisher: London ; Glasgow : Blackie
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Cedric Howard Glover
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Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Charles Burney
Publisher: Ams PressInc
ISBN: 9780404129200
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Charles Burney
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Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Roderick Cavaliero
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857733281
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Before unification, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread. It was known across Europe for the plentiful supply of consorts to be found among its abundant royalty, but the language and culture was largely incomprehensible to those outside its lands. In the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries- between the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 and unification under Bismarck in 1871 - Germany became the land of philosophers, poets, writers and composers. This particularly German cultural movement was able to survive the avalanche of Napoleonic conquest and exploitation and its impact was gradually felt far beyond Germany's borders. In this book, Roderick Cavaliero provides a fascinating overview of Germany's cultural zenith in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He considers the work of Germany's own artistic exports - the literature of Goethe and Grimm, the music of Wagner, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Bach and the philosophy of Schiller and Kant - as well as the impact of Germany on foreign visitors from Coleridge to Thackeray and from Byron to Disraeli. Providing a comprehensive and highly-readable account of Germany's cultural life from Frederick the Great to Bismarck, 'Genius, Power and Magic' is fascinating reading for anyone interested in European history and cultural history.

Author: Charles Burney
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Charles Burney
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Category : Grand tours (Education)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The manuscripts are the diary of the continental tour undertaken by Burney in 1770 in order to compile materials for his General History of Music. They contain very complete accounts of his visits to the major cities of France and Italy (Paris, Lyons, Milan, Padua, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Naples, Genoa, etc.), with more discussion of works of art and people encountered than appears in the various printed editions.

Author: Roger Lonsdale
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136836365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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First published in 1985, this is a history of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and sometimes encompassing Germany. Rather than being another popular treatment of the theme, this is a scholarly analysis of the motives, purposes, activities and achievements of those who made the Grand Tour. The book considers to what extent the Grand Tour did fulfil its theoretical educational function, or whether travellers merely parroted the observations of their guidebooks. It also indicates the importance of the Grand Tour in introducing foreign customs into Britain and extending the cosmopolitanism of the European upper classes.