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Vanishing sensibilities : Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann / Kristina Muxfeldt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muxfeldt, Kristina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--19th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827--Criticism and interpretation.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van.
- Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828--Criticism and interpretation.
- Schubert, Franz.
- Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856--Criticism and interpretation.
- Schumann, Robert.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Vanishing Sensibilities' examines music of Schubert, Beethoven Schumann, and their contemporaries in drama and poetry, showing how music was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the nature of liberty, consent in marriage, freedom of expression, and other matters of cultural and political urgency in this age of censorship.
- Contents:
- Liberty in the theater, or The emancipation of words
- The matrimonial anomaly (Schubert's opera for posterity)
- Frauenliebe und Leben now and then
- Music recollected in tranquillity : postures of memory in Beethoven
- A curious measure of changing Beethoven reception
- Schubert, Platen, and the myth of Narcissus.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 20, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-020812-0
- 0-19-978264-4
- 1-283-42301-4
- 9786613423016
- OCLC:
- 773755470
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