Composer and critic : two hundred years of musical criticism / by Max Graf.
| Author/creator | Graf, Max |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., ©1946. |
| Description | 331 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The author presents his credentials. Vienna around 1900 ; Bruckner's personal influence ; General position of the music critic -- The age of reason -- The new esthetics. Descartes ; Esthetic theory, Boileau ; The German estheticians -- The first magazines. England ; Germany and Switzerland -- The first music critics. Hamburg. General character of the eighteenth-century music critic ; Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) ; Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) ; Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708-1776) -- Berlin. The Berlin of the Age of Reason ; The theorists ; Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718-1778) -- Leipzig. Leipzig: the city and the university ; Lorenz Christoph Mizler (1711-1778) ; Johann Adam Hiller (1728-1804) ; Musical criticism in the general magazines -- The first conflict between critic and composer -- The battles against the baroque: the music critics in the fight. Baroque and the Age of Reason ; Italian Baroque opera in France ; French critics ; The spirit of parody ; The Berlin school, a prelude to the classic era -- Musical criticism and the classics: the attitude of the composers -- Haydn and the critics -- Mozart in musical criticism -- Beethoven and the critics. Beethoven's first years in Vienna ; Critical reaction to Beethoven's early works ; Criticisms after 1800 -- Musical magazines in the age of the classics. The new literary style exemplified in Germany ; Reichardt and his musical writings ; Other German and Austrian musical periodicals ; Early musical magazines in France and England ; The new bourgeois musical society -- The first music critic in dailies and weeklies -- The development of romanticism in Germany -- The new Beethoven criticism. E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) ; Adolf Bernhard Marx ; J. F. Reichardt ; Ludwig Rellstab ; Bettina Brentano (1785-1859) ; Richard Wagner -- Paris, 1830. The new society and its musicians ; Heine and Wagner as critics ; Musical criticism in the dailies: the feuilleton ; Liszt: performer and critic, Fétis ; Musical criticism in the magazines ; The young Romantics ; Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) -- Robert Schumann and Carl Maria von Weber as music critics, the underworld. Robert Schumann (1810-1856) ; Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) ; The underworld -- The fight against Wagner, Eduard Hanslick, the birth of modern musical criticism in Europe. The critics and Wagner ; Eduard Hanslick (1825-1904) ; Other opponents and defenders of Wagner ; The end of Romanticism, isolation of artists and critics ; The rise of the dailies, the music market -- Modern musical criticism. Germany ; Austria and Bohemia ; France ; England ; Russia ; The United States -- Epilogue: the future of musical criticism. |
| Local note | Little-320456--305131022597 |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 46001344 |