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Johan Christian Müller, and the Liebrich Sisters - Their Descendants and Ancestors
This book lists the known descendants of Johan Christian Müller and his wives, sisters Maria Magdalena and Anna Maria Liebrich. Three of their sons and three of their daughters moved to America between 1870 and 1900. Many of them were clothes cleaners and dyers New York City. One of them moved to Missouri and later to Iowa. This book also lists the known ancestors of Johan Christian, Maria Magdalena and Anna Maria in and around Nürtingen, Esslingen, Württemberg, in what is today Germany. Included are images of many of the church records showing where this information was found.
The German Symphony between Beethoven and Brahms
It was Carl Dahlhaus who coined the phrase ’dead time’ to describe the state of the symphony between Schumann and Brahms. Christopher Fifield argues that many of the symphonies dismissed by Dahlhaus made worthy contributions to the genre. He traces the root of the problem further back to Beethoven’s ninth symphony, a work which then proceeded to intimidate symphonists who followed in its composer's footsteps, including Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann. In 1824 Beethoven set a standard that then had to rise in response to more demanding expectations from both audiences and the musical press. Christopher Fifield, who has a conductor’s intimacy with the repertory, looks in turn at the...
Schumann on Music
Includes 61 important critical pieces Schumann wrote for the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, 1834–1844. Perceptive evaluations of Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, other giants; also Spohr, Moscheles, Field, other minor masters. Annotated.
The Pawprints of History
The Pawprints of History shines a new light on a favorite subject -- the relationship between humans and their four-legged best friends. Stanley Coren, a renowned expert on dog-human interactions, has combed the annals of history and found captivating stories of how dogs have lent a helping paw and influenced the actions, decisions, and fates of well-known figures from every era and throughout the world. As history's great figures strut across the stage, Coren guides us from the wings, adoringly picking out the canine cameos and giving every dog of distinction its day. In this unparalleled chronicle, we see how Florence Nightingale's chance encounter with a wounded dog changed her life by le...
A History of the Oratorio
With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored the genre in the Classical era. Here, Smither surveys the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century oratorio, stressing the main geographic areas of oratorio composition and performance: Germany, Britain, America, and France. Continuing the approach of the previous volumes, Smither treats the oratorio in each language and geographical area by first exploring the cultural and social contexts of oratorio. He then addresses aesthetic theory and criti...
The Nation
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Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I
Wagner’s Ring is one of the greatest of all artworks of Western civilization, but what is it all about? The power and mystery of Wagner’s creation was such that even he felt he stood before his work ‘as though before some puzzle’. A clue to the Ring’s greatness lies in its multiple avenues of self-disclosure and the corresponding plethora of interpretations that over the years has granted ample scope for directors, and will no doubt do so well into the distant future. One possible interpretation, which Richard Bell argues should be taken seriously, is the Ring as Christian theology. In this first of two volumes, Bell considers, among other things, how the composer’s Christian interests may be detected in the ‘forging’ of his Ring, in his appropriation of sources (whether they be myths and sagas, writers, poets, or philosophers), and in works composed around the same time, especially his Jesus of Nazareth.
Katalog der Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek Leipzig
Der dritte Band der Beschreibung der Leipziger neuzeitlichen Handschriften der Nullgruppe erfasst in erster Linie Texte zum Bereich der Wissenschafts und Universitatsgeschichte, wobei hier die Leipziger Hochschule einen Schwerpunkt bildet. Zu den Manuskripten gehoren Vorlesungsnachschriften der verschiedensten wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen (17. bis 19. Jahrhundert), Korrespondenzen von Gelehrten, Werkmanuskripte, Tagebucher und archivalische Uberlieferungen mehrerer wissenschaftlicher Organisationen (z.B. der germanistischen Sektion der Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmanner). Eine erhebliche Anzahl von Handschriften betreffen verschiedene Orte und Territorien in der Zeit des Alten Reiches (z.B. Erzgebirge, Sachsen insgesamt, Elsass, Leipzig, Hildesheim). Ausserhalb der thematisch zusammenfassbaren Handschriftengruppen stehen zahlreiche einzelne Bande, denen nicht selten ein hoher wissenschaftlicher Wert zukommt (z.B. eine Sammlung von Einblattdrucken des 16. Jahrhunderts, Aufzeichnungen zur franzosischen "Compagnie des Indes", der Teilnachlass von Johann Friedrich Rochlitz zur Musikgeschichte).
