This Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music
provides detailed and authoritative articles for the
most important composers, concepts, genres, music
educators, performers, theorists, writings, and works of
cultivated music in Europe and the Americas during the
period 1[zasłonięte]789-19. The roster of biographical entries
includes not only canonical composers such as Beethoven,
Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin, Faure, Grieg, Liszt, Mahler,
Mendelssohn, Mussorgsky, Rossini, Schubert, Robert
Schumann, Sibelius, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Wagner,
and Wolf, but also less-well-known distinguished
contemporaries of those composers (among them George
Whitefield Chadwick, Cecile Chaminade, Ernesto Elorduy,
Chiquinha Gonzaga, Fanny Hensel, C. H. Parry, and Clara
Schumann, to name but a few). Significant literary and
cultural topics such as Goethe's Faust and Wagner's
theoretical writings of the 1850s, as well as entries on
other cultural luminaries who significantly influenced
music's Romanticisms - among them J. S. Bach, Goethe,
Haydn, Handel, Heine, Mozart, Schiller, and Shakespeare
- are also included. Entries on important institutions
(conservatory, orpheon, Mannerchor), concepts
(biographical fallacy, copyright, exoticism, feminism,
nationalism, performance practice), and political
caesurae and movements (First and Second French Empire,
First, Second, and Third French Republic,
Franco-Prussian War, Revolutions of 1848, Risorgimento)
round out the dictionary section. Like other volumes in
this series, this book's more than 500 entries are
preceded by an introductory essay that explains the
essential concepts necessary for understanding and
exploring further the vast and complex musical landscape
of Romanticism, plus a detailed Chronology. Concluding
the volume is an extensive bibliography that lists the
most important source-critical series of editions of
Romantic music, important general writings on the period
and its music, and composer-by-composer
bibliographies.
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