Jewry in music : entry to the profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner / David Conway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conway, David, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Music--History and criticism.

Jews.

Jews--Music.

Jews in music.

Physical Description:

xiv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Summary:

David Conway analyses why and how Jews, virtually absent from western art music until the end of the eighteenth century, came to be represented in all branches of the profession within fifty years as leading figures - not only as composers and performers, but as publishers, impresarios and critics. His study places this process in the context of dynamic economic, political, sociological and technological changes, and also of developments in Jewish communities and the Jewish religion itself, in the major cultural centres of western Europe. Beginning with a review of attitudes to Jews in the arts, and an assessment of Jewish music and musical skills, in the age of the Enlightenment, Conway traces the story of growing Jewish involvement with music through the biographies of the famous, the neglected and the forgotten, leading to a new and radical contextualisation of Wagner's infamous 'Judaism in Music'. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 'Whatever the reasons' 1

2 Eppes rores: can a Jew be an artist? 15

3 In the midst of many people 55

Musical Europe 55

The Netherlands 58

England 64

Austria 120

Germany 143

France 203

4 Jewry in music 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107015388

1107015383

OCLC:

755004292