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Romantic music, a history of musical style in nineteenth-century Europe, Leon Plantinga

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Romantic music, a history of musical style in nineteenth-century Europe, Leon Plantinga

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-508) and index

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musicillustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Romantic music

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bibliography

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10309380

Responsibility statement

Leon Plantinga

Series statement

The Norton introduction to music history

Sub title

a history of musical style in nineteenth-century Europe

Table Of Contents

Introduction. Historical background ; Music, patronage, and the public ; The composer's training ; Musical aesthetics ; Historicism in music ; "Romantic" -- Beethoven in Vienna, 1792-1808. Early stylistic growth: piano sonatas ; The String Quartet op. 18, no. 6 ; The Tempest Sonata, op. 31, no. 2 ; The Eroica Symphony ; Fidelio -- Beethoven: the late years, 1809-27. Formation of the late style ; The Diabelli Variations ; The Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony ; The late quartets ; Contemporary assessment -- Beethoven's contemporaries: instrumental music. Schubert ; Music for piano: Clementi, Dusík, and Field ; Czerny, Moscheles, Hummel ; Schubert's piano music -- The Lied: Schubert and his predecessors. The Berlin school ; Southern Germany and Vienna ; Schubert -- The rise of the nineteenth-century opera. Rossini ; Donizetti and Bellini ; Opera in France ; German romantic opera -- Paris from 1830-1848. Grand Opera ; The virtuosos ; Liszt ; Chopin ; French Romanticism ; Berlioz -- Schumann and his German contemporaries. Schumann ; Mendelssohn ; Other contemporaries -- Wagner and the music drama. The Ring of Nibelung ; Tristan and Isolde ; Die Meistersinger ; Later triumphs -- Italian and French opera in the later nineteenth century. Verdi ; Italian contemporaries and followers ; French opera of the later nineteenth century -- Nationalist music. Hungary ; Bohemia ; Tomášek and Smetana ; Dvořák ; Poland ; Russia ; Glinka and Dargomïzhsky ; "The Five" ; Musorgsky [Mussorgsky] ; Rimsky-Korsakov ; Tchaikovsky ; Scandinavia ; England ; Spain -- Crosscurrents in the late century. Liszt and the "New German School" ; Brahms ; Bruckner ; Leipzig ; Paris ; The century's end in Germany and Austria

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