The invention of Beethoven and Rossini : historiography, analysis, criticism / Edited by Nicholas Mathew and Benjamin Walton.

Other author Mathew, Nicholas editor.
Other author Walton, Benjamin, 1972- editor.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxiii, 384 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
Subjects
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827--Criticism and interpretation.
Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868--Criticism and interpretation.
Music--19th century. --History and criticism.
Music--Historiography.

Contents Dahlhaus's Beethoven-Rossini Stildualismus: lingering legacies of the text-event dichotomy / James Hepokoski -- Beethoven, Rossini, and others / James Webster -- Heilige Trias, Stildualismus, Beethoven: on the limits of nineteenth-century Germanic music historiography / Gundula Kreuzer -- Rossini and Beethoven in the reception of Schubert / Suzannah Clark -- Two styles in 1830s London: "The form and order of a perspicuous unity" / Roger Parker -- Looking north: Carlo Soliva and the two styles south of the Alps / Martin Deasy -- "More German than Beethoven": Rossini's Zelmira and Italian style / Benjamin Walton -- On being there in 1824 / Nicholas Mathew -- Making overtures / Scott Burnham -- Beethoven dances: Prometheus and his creatures in Vienna and Milan / Mary Ann Smart -- Rossinian repetitions / Emanuele Senici -- Very much of this world: Beethoven, Rossini, and the historiography of modernity / Julian Johnson -- Schopenhauer and Rossinian universality: on the Italianate in Schopenhauer's metaphysics of music / Yael Braunschweig -- Elements of disorder: appealing Beethoven vs. Rossini / John Deathridge -- Role reversal: Rossini and Beethoven in early biopics / Richard Will.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 355-380) and index.
LCCN 2013013362
ISBN9780521768054
ISBN0521768055