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Verdi and the Germans
This book explores how the reception of Italian opera, epitomised by Verdi, influenced changing ideas of German musical and national identity.
In mir ist Nacht
Der Komponist und Musikschriftsteller Robert Schumann (1810-1856) war einer der bedeutendsten Tonschöpfer der Romantik. Gleichwohl führte er zu seinen Lebzeiten ein Schattendasein als Musiker und Mann der berühmten Pianistin Clara Wieck (1819-1896). Die geheimen Tagebücher erzählen von Musik, Liebe und einer Familie mit acht Kindern, aber auch von Krisen, Konflikten und seelischen Schwankungen. Schumanns Leben endete tragisch in der Heilanstalt Endenich bei Bonn.
Women in Music
Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography emerging from more than twenty-five years of feminist scholarship on music. This book testifies to the great variety of subjects and approaches represented in over two decades of published writings on women, their work, and the important roles that feminist outlooks have played in formerly male-oriented academic scholarship or journalistic musings on women and music.
Schumann's Virtuosity
“A valuable resource for musicologists, theorists, pianists, and aestheticians interested in reading about Schumann’s views on virtuosity.” —Notes Considered one of the greatest composers—and music critics—of the Romantic era, Robert Schumann (1810–1856) played an important role in shaping nineteenth-century German ideas about virtuosity. Forging his career in the decades that saw abundant public fascination with the feats and creations of virtuosos (Liszt, Paganini, and Chopin among others), Schumann engaged with instrumental virtuosity through not only his compositions and performances but also his music reviews and writings about his contemporaries. Ultimately, the discourse of virtuosity influenced the culture of Western “art music” well beyond the nineteenth century and into the present day. By examining previously unexplored archival sources, Alexander Stefaniak looks at the diverse approaches to virtuosity Schumann developed over the course of his career, revealing several distinct currents in nineteenth-century German virtuosity and the enduring flexibility of virtuosity discourse.
Rethinking Schumann
A provocative re-examination of a major romantic composer, Rethinking Schumann provides fresh approaches to Schumann's oeuvre and its reception from the perspectives of literature, visual arts, cultural history, performance studies, dance, and film. Traditionally, research has focused on biographical links between the composer and his music, encouraging the assumption that Schumann was solitary, divorced from reality, and frequently associated with "untimeliness." These eighteen new essays argue from a multitude of perspectives that Schumann was in fact very much a man of his time, informed not only by music but also the culture and society around him. The book further reveals that the compo...
Androids in the Enlightenment
The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities such as writing, drawing, or music making, these “Enlightenment automata” have attracted continuous critical attention from the time they were made to the present, often as harbingers of the modern industrial age, an era during which human bodies and souls supposedly became mechanized. In Androids in the Enlightenment, Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two such automata—both depicting pian...
A Women's Berlin
"Despina Stratigakos is assistant professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York."--BOOK JACKET.
Schwankender Grund
Der junge Philosoph Alex Brix zieht nach einer gescheiterten Beziehung in eine Studierenden-WG. Er versucht, seinen Kummer zu überwinden. Aber da ist nur der Liebeskummer, der ihm zusetzt. Alex leidet unter der Menschheit, die ihm dürftig, intolerant und grausam erscheint. Die Gesellschaft ist für ihn ein Abgrund, an dem er steht. Als dann auch noch Gewalttaten und Morde geschehen, muss Alex um sein Weltbild ringen. Ein sinistrer gesellschaftskiritscher Tagebuchroman - eine Atmosphärenstudie unserer Gegenwart.
Herbsttagsgedanken
Eine alternde frau hängt an einem Herbsttag ihren Gedanken nach. In ihrem Gedankenflug vermischt sich profaner Alltag mit ihrer Lebens- und Liebesgeschihcte. es ist eine einfache, stille Geschichte, die, weil sie schlicht und in Sprüngen erzählt wird, tief berührt. Ehrlich, undramatisch und humorvoll berichtet die Heldin im 'Zickzack ihrer GEdanken' (M. Frisch) auch tragische Erinnerungen. Der Autorin ist durch ihre Beschreibung ein Mosaik der Zeitläufte vom Ende des Weltkriegs bis in die Geegnwart gelungen, die nicht kritischer Seitenhiebe entbehrt.
