Symphonic aspirations : German music and politics, 1900-1945 / Karen Painter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Painter, Karen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Germany--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

National socialism and music.

Music--Political aspects--Germany--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 354 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Painter examines the politicization of musical listening in Germany and Austria, showing how nationalism, anti-Semitism, liberalism, and socialism profoundly affected the experience of music. She draws on extensive writings on the symphony, particularly those of Mahler and Bruckner, to offer evidence that music can and did serve ideological ends.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

I. Tradition in a Modern Age: Bruckner and Mahler at the Fin de siècle

1. Symphonic Idealism in Crisis

2. Symphonic Conventions of a World Past

3. Sensuality and Redemption

II. The Politics of Tradition: Mahler and Bruckner, 1914–1933

4. Mahler’s Progressive Legacy and the Aestheticization of Violence

5. Bruckner’s Nationalist Legacy and the Aestheticization of Space

III. Symphonic Traditions under National Socialism

6. Symphonic Ambitions and Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler Symphony

7. Symphonic Defeat

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-342) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674033597

0674033590