Vanishing Sensibilities Schubert Beethoven Schumann 1st Edition by Kristina Muxfeldt ISBN 0199782423 9780199782420

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ISBN 10: 0199782423

ISBN 13: 9780199782420 

Author: Kristina Muxfeldt 

Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry. Music, especially music with text, was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the nature of liberty, which included such topics as the role of consent in marriage, same-sex relationships, freedom of the press, and the freedom to worship (or not). Among the most common vehicles for stimulating debate about pressing social concerns were the genres of historical drama, and legend or myth, whose stories became inflected in fascinating ways during the Age of Metternich. Interior and imagined worlds, memories and fantasies, were called up in purely instrumental music, and music was privately celebrated for its ability to circumvent the restrictions that were choking the verbal arts.Author Kristina Muxfeldt invites us to listen in on these cultural conversations, dating from a time when the climate of censorship made the tone of what was said every bit as important as its literal content. At this critical moment in European history such things as a performer’s delivery, spontaneous improvisation, or the demeanor of the music could carry forbidden messages of hope and political resistance–flying under the censor’s radar like a carrier pigeon. Rather than trying to decode or fix meanings, Muxfeldt concerns herself with the very mechanisms of their communication, and she confronts distortions to meaning that form over time as the cultural or political pressures shaping the original expression fade and are eventually forgotten. In these pages are accounts of works successful in their own time alongside others that failed to achieve more than a liminal presence, among them Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella and his last opera project Der Graf von Gleichen, whose libretto was banned even before Schubert set to work composing it. Enlivening the narrative are generous music examples, reproductions of artwork, and facsimiles of autograph material. 

Table of contents:

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Credits for Music Examples
Acknowledgments
Notes to the Reader
Prologue: The Historian
1. Liberty in the Theater, or the Emancipation of Words
2. The Matrimonial Anomaly (Schubert’s Opera for Posterity)
3. Frauenliebe und Leben Now and Then
4. Music Recollected in Tranquillity: Postures of Memory in Beethoven
5. A Curious Measure of Changing Beethoven Reception
6. Schubert, Platen, and the Myth of Narcissus
Appendix 6.1
Appendix 6.2
Works Cited
Index

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