Symphonic Aspirations : : German Music and Politics, 1900-1945 /

Symphonic Aspirations : : German Music and Politics, 1900-1945 / / Karen Painter.

Painter examines the politicization of musical listening in Germany and Austria, showing how nationalism, anti-Semitism, liberalism, and socialism profoundly affected the experience of music. She draws on extensive writings on the symphony, particularly those of Mahler and Bruckner, to offer evidenc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Painter, Karen,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Tradition in a Modern Age: Bruckner and Mahler at the Fin de siècle
  • 1. Symphonic Idealism in Crisis
  • 2. Symphonic Conventions of a World Past
  • 3. Sensuality and Redemption
  • II. The Politics of Tradition: Mahler and Bruckner, 1914-1933
  • 4. Mahler's Progressive Legacy and the Aestheticization of Violence
  • 5. Bruckner's Nationalist Legacy and the Aestheticization of Space
  • III. Symphonic Traditions under National Socialism
  • 6. Symphonic Ambitions and Hindemith's Mathis der Maler Symphony
  • 7. Symphonic Defeat
  • Notes
  • Index

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