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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conway, David, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Music--History and criticism.

Jews.

Jews in music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 341 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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'.

Contents:

Cover; Jewry in Music; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Musical examples; Acknowledgements; A note on translations and text; Abbreviations; 1: 'Whatever the reasons'; The reasons why; Jewishness and Judentum; Processes of change: a lightning review; 2: Eppes rores: can a Jew be an artist?; Eppes rores; Jewish musical life in Europe before the eighteenth century; An early flourish; Synagogue music; Klezmer and folk-song; Early encounters with art-music; Transferable skills; Can a Jew have taste?; Jews, music and Romanticism; The theory of civil equality; The quest for culture

Jewish identity and RomanticismClassical and Romantic; Words and music: Da Ponte and Heine; 3: In the midst of many people; MUSICAL EUROPE; THE NETHERLANDS; ENGLAND; Re-entry of Jews to England; Music in England in the eighteenth century; Handel and the Jews; Jewish musicians in eighteenth-century London; Michael Leoni: a double life; Braham, Bramah and the Abramses; Braham's early career; Family Quarrels; Braham as a Gentile; Isaac Nathan, 'friend of Byron'; British Jews in musical life, 1825-1850; German Jews in English music; The West End; AUSTRIA; Vienna's 'second society'

Jewish musicians in Beethoven's ViennaSalomon Sulzer; Rosenthal and Gusikov: Jewish musician as patriot and as patriarch; GERMANY; Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and the rest; Berlin: the Itzig family and its circle; Berlin's Jews 1780-1815: the salons and after; Music in the Jewish reformation and counter-reformation; 'Devotion and confidence': the young Meyerbeer; The education of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn; The Jewish ambience of Felix Mendelssohn; Jewish activists in German music; Schumann and Wagner on Jews; FRANCE; Paris and 'Les français juifs'; The Paris Consistorial Synagogue and its music

Fromental Halévy: progress of an israëliteAlkan: 'I sleep but my heart waketh'; German Jews in musical Paris; Meyerbeer in Italy; The supremacy of Meyerbeer; 4: Jewry in music; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-23020-9

1-139-21004-1

1-280-48538-8

9786613580368

1-139-22301-1

1-139-21821-2

1-139-21512-4

1-139-22473-5

1-139-22130-2

1-139-05848-7

OCLC:

775870000