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Leipzig after Bach : church and concert life in a German city / Jeffrey S. Sposato.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sposato, Jeffrey S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Concerts--Germany--Leipzig--History--18th century.
- Concerts.
- Concerts--Germany--Leipzig--History--19th century.
- Church music--Germany--Leipzig--18th century.
- Church music.
- Church music--Germany--Leipzig--19th century.
- Music--Germany--Leipzig--18th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--Germany--Leipzig--19th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 313 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This text examines church music and public concert music in Leipzig, Germany, a city in Saxony, in the period between 1750 (the year Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach died) and 1847 (the year that Gewandhaus orchestra conductor Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy died).
- Contents:
- Leipzig, Saxony, and Lutheran orthodoxy
- Church music and the rise of the public concert, 1743-1805
- Hiller, Schicht, and the crises of church and state, 1785-1823
- Mendelssohn and the transformation of Leipzig musical culture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-061697-0
- 0-19-061698-9
- 0-19-061696-2
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