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Book The Political Orchestra

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fritz Trümpi
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-11-07
  • ISBN : 022625142X
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Political Orchestra written by Fritz Trümpi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the first time, Fritz Trümpi offers new insight into the orchestras’ place in the larger political constellation. Trümpi looks first at the decades preceding National Socialist rule, when the competing orchestras, whose rivalry mirrored a larger rivalry between Berlin and Vienna, were called on to represent “superior” Austro-German music and were integrated into the administrative and social structures of their respective cities—becoming vulnerable to political manipulation in the process. He then turns to the Nazi period, when the orchestras came to play a major role in cultural policies. As he shows, the philharmonics, in their own unique ways, strengthened National Socialist dominance through their showcasing of Germanic culture in the mass media, performances for troops and the general public, and fictional representations in literature and film. Accompanying these propaganda efforts was an increasing politicization of the orchestras, which ranged from the dismissal of Jewish members to the programming of ideologically appropriate repertory—all in the name of racial and cultural purity. Richly documented and refreshingly nuanced, The Political Orchestra is a bold exploration of the ties between music and politics under fascism.

Book Adalbert Stifter  A Critical Study

Download or read book Adalbert Stifter A Critical Study written by Eric A. Blackall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1948 text was the first complete study of Austrian prose writer Adalbert Stifter's work to appear in English.

Book Detours

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  • Author : Violetta L. Waibel
  • Publisher : V&R Unipress
  • Release : 2015-09-16
  • ISBN : 3847004816
  • Pages : 630 pages

Download or read book Detours written by Violetta L. Waibel and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Detours" explores the reception of Kant's works in Vienna, Austria and Eastern Europe from a historical point of view and focuses on six topics: Kant and Censorship, Kant and Karl Leonhard Reinhold, who was the first Kantian born in Vienna and became a precursor for German and Austrian Kant reception in Jena, Kant and Eastern Europe, Kant and his Poets, Kant and Phenomenology and Kant and the Vienna Circle. In this way, the ambivalent perception of Kant in Austria becomes clearer: On the one hand Kant was censored and criticized harshly but on the other hand Kant's philosophy was studied actively in the "underground".

Book Mendelssohn Perspectives

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  • Author : Nicole Grimes
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-22
  • ISBN : 1317097394
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Mendelssohn Perspectives written by Nicole Grimes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the invective of Nietzsche and Shaw is to be taken as an endorsement of the lasting quality of an artist, then Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes pride of place beside Tennyson and Brahms in the canon of great nineteenth-century artists. Mendelssohn Perspectives presents valuable new insights into Mendelssohn’s music, biography and reception. Critically engaging a wide range of source materials, the volume combines traditional musical-analytical studies with those that draw on other humanistic disciplines to shed new light on the composer’s life, and on his contemporary and posthumous reputations. Together, these essays bring new historical and interpretive dimensions to Mendelssohn studies. The volume offers essays on Mendelssohn's Jewishness, his vast correspondence, his music for the stage, and his relationship with music of the past and future, as well as the compositional process and handling of form in the music of both Mendelssohn and his sister, the composer Fanny Hensel. German literature and aesthetics, gender and race, philosophy and science, and issues of historicism all come to bear on these new perspectives on Mendelssohn.

Book Hermann Hesse

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  • Author : Joseph Mileck
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1977-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520027565
  • Pages : 816 pages

Download or read book Hermann Hesse written by Joseph Mileck and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pedagogic Design and Literary Form in the Work of Adalbert Stifter

Download or read book Pedagogic Design and Literary Form in the Work of Adalbert Stifter written by Gudrun Klarner and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1986 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spine title: Stifter, pedagogic design, literary form.

Book   sterreichisches Staatsw  rterbuch

Download or read book sterreichisches Staatsw rterbuch written by Ernst Mischler and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Etymologisches W rterbuch Der Deutschen Sprache

Download or read book Etymologisches W rterbuch Der Deutschen Sprache written by Friedrich Kluge and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of the Novel

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Novel written by Paul Schellinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual writers assess the place of that writer within the development of the novel form, explaining why and in exactly what ways that writer is importnant. Similarly, an entry on an individual novel discusses the importance of that novel not only form, analyzing the particular innovations that novel has introduced and the ways in which it has influenced the subsequent course of the genre. A wide range of topic entries explore the history, criticism, theory, production, dissemination and reception of the novel. A very important component of the Encyclopedia of the Novel is its long surveys of development of the novel in various regions of the world.

Book Women in Nineteenth Century Czech Musical Culture

Download or read book Women in Nineteenth Century Czech Musical Culture written by Anja Bunzel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the circumstances of women’s music-making in the vibrant and diverse environment of the Czech lands during the nineteenth century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, while also considering more well-known works and composers from new woman-centric perspectives. It shows how the unique environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, intersects with gender to reveal hitherto unexplored networks that challenge the methodological nationalism of music studies as well as the discipline’s continued emphasis on singular canonical figures. The main areas of enquiry address aspects of performance and identity both within the Czech lands and abroad; women’s impact on social life with a view to different private, semiprivate, and public contexts and networks; and compositional aesthetics in musical works by and about women, analysed through the lens of piano works, song, choir music, and opera, always with the reception of these works in mind.

Book Before Infallibility

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  • Author : Adam Bunnell
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780838633441
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Before Infallibility written by Adam Bunnell and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of two nineteenth-century priests who tried to transform their church through a new formulations of ancient Truth. Systematic theologian Anton Gunther challenged the pantheistic idealism dominant in the German intellectual world of his day, and Johann Emanuel Veith found in Gunther's system of contrapositional dualism the basis of his theological expression.

Book Mozart s Requiem

Download or read book Mozart s Requiem written by Christoph Wolff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'When was the score of the Requiem completed?' is a question that everyone has asked; . . .but Wolff goes on to ask: 'Where do the technical and stylistic premises for the Requiem lie, and to what extent could these be taken into account after Mozart's death?' This question is rich in implications, central to the uniqueness of the work, and virtually undiscussed in the Mozart literature."—Thomas Bauman, co-author of Mozart's Operas

Book Germany and  The West

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  • Author : Riccardo Bavaj
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2017-06
  • ISBN : 1785335049
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Germany and The West written by Riccardo Bavaj and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as “Russia” and “the East,” and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.

Book Deutsches W  rterbuch

Download or read book Deutsches W rterbuch written by Jacob Grimm and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Das Neue Musiklexikon

Download or read book Das Neue Musiklexikon written by Arthur Eaglefield Hull and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sounds of Modern History

Download or read book Sounds of Modern History written by Daniel Morat and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ignored by scholars in the humanities, sound has just begun to take its place as an important object of study in the last few years. Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern phenomena such as urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, the rise of modern sciences, and of course the emergence of new sound recording and transmission media. This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and recorded music, auditory technologies like the telephone and stethoscope, and the ambient noise of the city.