Hermand, Jost (Editor) / Gilbert, Michael (Editor).

German Essays on Music.

New York, The Continuum Publishing Company, 1994. 14 cm x 21 cm. XXI, 310 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [The German Library: Volume 43.]

Includes the following essays: Christian Gottlieb Ludwig from An Attempt to Prove That a Musical Play or Opera Cannot be Good / Karl Wilhelm Ramler In Defense of the Operas (1756) / Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart Concerning Musical Genius (1784) / Immanuel Kant The Division of the Fine Arts (1790) / Johann Georg Sulzer Music (1794) / Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder The Marvels of the Musical Art (1799) / Johann Gottfried Herder Music, an Art of Humanity (1802) / Johann Nickolaus Forkel The Genius of Bach (1802) / E.T.A. Hoffmann Beethoven’s Instrumental Music (1813) / Arthur Schopenhauer from The World as Will and Representation (1819) / Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel from The Aesthetics (1835) / Thomas Mann Coming to Terms with Richard Wagner (1913) / Max Weber Technical, Economic, and Social Interrelations between Modern Music and Its Instrument (1921) / Peter Suhrkamp Music in the Schools (1930) / Bertthold Brecht On the Use of Music in an Epic Theater (1935) / Ernst Blosch Human Expression as Inseparable from Muisc (1955) / Theodor W. Adorno Classes and Strata (1962) / Jost Hermand Avant-garde, Modern, Postmodern: The Music (Almost) Nobody Wants to Hear (1991) etc.

″Up to the end of the nineteenth century, Germany largely perceived itself as ‘the nation of poets and philosophers.’ But with the enormous popularity of Schubert and Wagner, this began to change. Suddenly, the composers also began to play a greater role in theories of national identity, and music theory became a important element of German thought. The essays in this volume reflect this, and are by a range of writers: Adorno, Bloch, Thomas Mann, Wackenroder, Herder, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Hegel, Bettina von Arnim, Nietzsche, Max Weber, Brecht and others.” (Publisher)

• Keywords: 19th Century · 20th century · German Culture · German History · Germany · Music · Music History
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780826407214
• Inventory Number: 43909AB

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