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Beyond Nationalism
In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism. Still, it preserved domestic peace and provided the conditions for social, economic, and cultural progress in a vast area inhabited by eleven major nationalities and almost as many confessional groups. This study investigates the social origin, education, training, code of honor, lifestyle, and political role of the Habsburg officers. Simultaneously conservative and liberal, the officer corps, originally composed mainly of noblemen, willingly coopted thousands of commoners--among them an extraordinary number of Jews. Even during World War I, the army and its officers endured, surviving the dissolution of the state in October 1918, if only by a few days. The end of the multinational Habsburg army also marked the end of confessional and ethnic tolerance in Central and East Central Europe.
The Frightful Stage
In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama censorship occupied a great deal of the ruling class's time and energy, with a particularly focus on proposed scripts that potentially threatened the existing political, legal, and social order. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of nineteenth-century political theater censorship at a time, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when the European population was becoming increasingly politically active.
Words and Music
The chronological range covered by the individual essays is more than two hundred years, from the Classical Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century. Some of the studies encompassed by this volume undertake the analysis of one composer's settings of a particular poet's work - albeit with rather more critical rigour. Others trace the ways in which a literary text is modified and adapted before and as it develops as one of the principal components of an opera. Several share new insights into the complex relationships of individual works with the literary and musical traditions out of which they emerge (or which they transform and renew) - or set such works in the political contexts of t...
The Austrian Officer at Work and at Play
A detailed social study of the development of the officer class within the Austrian Imperial army, first published in 1913.
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To the Court of the Tsarinas and Back Again
In the 18th century Italian theatre and its artists became vital to Russian rulers, who employed Italian musico-dramatic works to advance their political agendas and emphasize Russia’s cultural uniqueness and its cosmopolitan character. Innumerable playwrights and composers, actors and singers were active at the Russian court. Usually considered at best peripheral to Europe, the faraway Russian Empire represents a particularly powerful example of the mobility of theatre agents and the circulation of artistic practices. This book sets a new regional accent on imperial Russia, thus mitigating the traditional historiographical emphasis on Western Europe, and adopts a transnational approach to...
Vom k.u.k. Hauptmann zum Kommerzialrat
Vom k. u. k. Hauptmann zum Kommerzialrat. Karl Bittner (1871 1951) Zwei Lebensentwurfe im Spiegel autobiographischer Aufzeichnungen basiert auf einem bemerkenswerten autobiographischen Nachlass, in dem ein burgerliches Leben aus drei unterschiedlichen zeitlichen und inhaltlichen Perspektiven nachgezeichnet wird: Einem Curriculum vitae fur den Protagonisten selbst, einem Tagebuch fur seinen Sohn und als eine Art Lebensbilanz einer Chronik fur die Offentlichkeit. Drei Quellen, drei Blickwinkel ein Leben. Die Studie untersucht Karl Bittners Lebens- und Identitatsentwurfe als Offizier und als Burger in einem schicht- und kulturspezifischen Kontext. In acht Jahrzehnten eines Lebens spiegeln sich exemplarisch der Niedergang und Zerfall der Habsburgermonarchie, die mit dem Zusammenbruch einhergehenden Bruche und Bewaltigungsstrategien, eine sich manifestierende Krise des Burgertums sowie die (Re)Stabilisierung burgerlicher Lebensformen im 20. Jahrhundert.
Center Stage
Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, existed in Europe. However, by the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries nearly every large town possessed a theater in which operas were performed, especially in Central Europe, the region upon which this book concentrates. This volume, a revised and extended version of two well-reviewed bo...
