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August Wilhelm Ambros. Musikaufsätze und -rezensionen 1872-1876
Mit dem zweiten Band wird die historisch-kritische Ausgabe der Wiener Musikaufsätze und -rezensionen von August Wilhelm Ambros abgeschlossen. Er umfasst insgesamt 126 Musikkritiken und -aufsätze, die Ambros in seinen drei letzten Lebensjahren in Wien geschrieben hat. Diese vorwiegend für die Wiener Zeitung bestimmten Beiträge stellen somit eine Art Vollendung von Ambros' lebenslanger musikkritischer Arbeit dar. Von Bedeutung sind sie auch im Kontext des gesamten europäischen musikästhetischen und kritischen Diskurses der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Obwohl Ambros die erste Gesamtaufführung von Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen und die Uraufführung von Brahms' Erster Symphonie im Jahr 1876 nicht mehr erleben konnte, geben die im vorliegenden Band enthaltenen Berichte doch auch einen umfassenden Einblick in seine Wagner- und Brahms-Rezeption. Zugleich wird jedoch an dem hier präsentierten Textkorpus ersichtlich, dass die Themen der Wiener Musikkritik der damaligen Zeit viel facettenreicher waren, als dass sie sich nur auf die kontroverse Polemik um Brahms und Wagner reduzieren ließen.
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August Wilhelm Ambros
Als promovierter Jurist, bewandert in Kunstgeschichte und Literatur, gehört der Musikschriftsteller August Wilhelm Ambros (1816–1876) zu den typischen Universalgeistern des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die im vorliegenden Band enthaltenen Beiträge geben einen Einblick in die verschiedenen Gebiete seines Schaffens, angefangen von der Musikkritik und -ästhetik über die Musikgeschichtsschreibung bis hin zu den musikalischen Werken und kunsthistorischen Studien. Berücksichtigt werden dabei sowohl Ambros' Wirken in Prag als auch seine Schaffensperiode (ab 1872) in der Donaumetropole Wien. Darüber hinaus wird sein Œuvre in einen breiteren Kontext seiner Vorgänger (v. a. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing), Zeitgenossen (v. a. Eduard Hanslick, Anton Springer) und Nachfolger (Hugo Riemann, Guido Adler) eingebettet.
From My Life
From My Life, the autobiography of the famed music critic Eduard Hanslick, appeared toward the end of his life, in 1894, when it went through three printings. It was republished in 1911, and again, more recently, in 1987, by Bärenreiter, and in 2011, by Taschenbuch. Born in Prague, Hanslick studied piano with Tomaschek, and though, like other compatriots and contemporaries, he studied law and became a government functionary, he went on to become the most noted and honored music critic in nineteenth-century Vienna, making his mark with his relatively brief disquisition On the Musically Beautiful, first issued in 1854. In the Brahms-Wagner controversy, he was on the side of the former, and was the target of Wagner’s vicious anti-semitism, even though he had been among the first to champion Wagner’s work in Vienna. His long and informative autobiography has never appeared in complete translation to English or any other language.
The Origins of Music
Carl Stumpf was one of the founding fathers of Gestalt psychology. In this volume, first published in German in 1911 he discusses the origin and forms of musical activity as well as various theories on the origin of music.
A History of Western Philosophy of Music
This book presents a comprehensive, accessible survey of Western philosophy of music from Pythagoras to the present. Its narrative traces themes and schools through history, in a sequence of five chapters that survey the ancient, medieval, early modern, modern and contemporary periods. Its wide-ranging coverage includes medieval Islamic thinkers, Continental and analytic thinkers, and neglected female thinkers such as Vernon Lee (Violet Paget). All aspects of the philosophy of music are discussed, including music and the cosmos, music's value, music's relation to the other arts, the problem of opera, the origins of musical genius, music's emotional impact, the moral effects of music, the ontology of musical works, and the relevance of music's historical context. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars in philosophy and musicology, and all who are interested in the ways in which philosophers throughout history have thought about music.
Helmholtz and the Modern Listener
Steege explores Helmholtz's significance within a historical shift in the theory and practice of listening in nineteenth-century European culture.
Lateness and Brahms
Lateness and Brahms takes up the fascinating, yet understudied problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Brahms's conspicuous and puzzling absence in previous scholarly accounts of the time and place raises important questions, and as Margaret Notley demonstrates, the tendency to view him in neutralized, ahistorical terms has made his music seem far less interesting than it truly is.In pursuit of an historical Brahms, Notley focuses on the later chamber music, drawing on various documents and perspectives, but with particular emphasis on the relevance of Western Marxist critical traditions.
Defining Deutschtum
Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna offers a nuanced look at the intersection of music, cultural identity, and political ideology in late-nineteenth-century Vienna. Drawing on an extensive selection of writings in the city's political press, correspondence, archival documents, and a large body of recent scholarship in late Habsburg cultural and political history, author David Brodbeck argues that Vienna's music critics were important agents in the public sphere whose writings gave voice to distinct, sometimes competing ideological positions. These conflicting positions are exemplified especially well in their critical writi...
