Music in the romantic era / Alfred Einstein.
| Author/creator | Einstein, Alfred |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [1947] |
| Description | xii, 371 pages, 1 leaf : portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Romantik in der Musik. English |
| Contents | Antecedents, concepts, and ideals. Contrasts. Music and the Romantic spirit ; Antitheses in Romantic music ; Unifying principles in Romantic music -- The individual and society. Social function of the composer ; The eighteenth-century composer ; Beethoven's concept of his art ; The Romantic musician ; The nationalist idea -- Music as the center of the arts. Tendency towards merger of the arts ; Music and word ; New versatility of the artist ; Social background of the Romantic composer ; Literary consciousness of the Romantics -- The supremacy of instrumental music. Music as sound ; The vocal element in Romantic music -- The contradictions. Growing cleavage between artist and public ; Folk song as a cure for isolation ; New function of music in the Romantic era ; Romantic view of earlier music ; Romanticized revival of the past ; New veneration of J. S. Bach ; Virtuosity vs. intimacy -- Universal and national music. Universality in the eighteenth century ; New enthusiasm for regional color ; National dialects in music ; Nationalism and the individual -- The forms and the content. Beethoven and form ; Form in the romantic symphony ; Berlioz and Liszt ; Smaller forms ; Vocal music -- The history. The rise of musical Romanticism. Bach as seen by the Romantics ; The Romantics and the Palestrina period ; Romantic view of the classics: of Haydn ; Of Mozart ; Of Beethoven -- The Romantic classic: Schubert. The man ; Schubert's early instrumental works ; The later symphonies ; Chamber music and piano compositions ; Schubert as creator of the lied ; Currents in Schubert's lieder ; Church and choral music -- Romantic opera. Specialists in opera ; Antecedents of the Romantic opera ; Early Romantic opera: Weber ; Der freischutz, Euryanthe, Oberon ; Marschner, Spohr, Lortzing ; Schumann's Genoveva ; Parisian opera : Meyerbeer -- Symphonic and chamber music. Mendelssohn, the romantic classicist ; Classic and romantic in Schumann ; Berlioz, the French romantic ; Liszt, a born revolutionary ; Brahms, a posthumous musician ; Bruckner, religious symphonist -- Church music. Protestant church music: Mendelssohn ; Catholic church music: Berlioz ; Liszt "dilettante christianity" ; Romanticized church music: Gounod and Franck ; Genuine catholicism: Bruckner, Rossini, Verdi -- Oratorio. Mendelssohn and Schumann ; Oratorio: development of a hybrid form ; Brahms -- Song. Limitations in Italy and France ; Schumann, successor to Schubert ; Lowe, Franz, Brahms ; Wagner and Liszt ; Trend towards reaction: Hugo Wolf and others -- Universalism within the national - I. Literature of the piano. Piano: the real instrument of the Romantic era ; Mendelssohn's piano compositions ; The problem of virtuosity ; Schumann's art: fiery and dreamy ; Liszt, the creative technician ; Chopin, an original musician ; Romantic virtuosi: Heller, Henselt, Alkan ; Brahms as pianist -- Universalism within the national - II. Neo-Romantic opera. Wagner: power-politician in art ; Wagner explains Wagner: the ring ; Tristan und Isolde ; Die meistersinger: national social drama ; Parsifal: Wagner's sermon to his flock ; Wagner's path towards individuality ; Those in Wagner's shadow ; French opera from la juive to Carmen ; Italian opera: the romantic-demonic in Rossini ; Bellini ; Donizetti ; Verdi: a man of his country ; Periods in Verdi's development ; From I Vespri Siciliani to Aida ; The last period: Otello and Falstaff ; Offenbach and the operetta -- Nationalism. National elements in pre-Romantic music ; Nationalization in Romantic music: Bohemia ; Russia ; Scandinavia ; Holland ; Belgium ; Hungary ; Poland ; Spain and Portugal ; North America -- The philosophy. Musical aesthetics and musicology. Aesthetics ; New evaluation of "Absolute" music ; Convergence of the arts ; The cult of music: Liszt and Mazzini ; Against fusion of the arts: Hanslick ; Musicology. |
| Abstract | The present volume of the Norton History of Music is an attempt to characterize the Romantic movement through its center: music. The author's aim has been to show how the Romantic movement was manifested in music and how music affected the Romantic movement. |
| Local note | Little-38607 |
| Local note | Little-39252 |
| General note | "First edition." |
| LCCN | 47003745 |