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Summary:

This book is the first detailed contextual study of string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna, at a time when that genre reigned supreme among the different chamber genres. Focusing on a key transition period in the early nineteenth century, which bore witness to fundamental shifts in the 'private' sphere of music-making, it explores the 'cultivation' of string quartets by composers, critics, listeners, performers, publishers and patrons. The book highlights these parties' interactions, ideas and ideals, which were central to defining the unique cultures of chamber music arising at this time. We gain fresh insights into publishing and marketing, performance venues and practices, review culture, listening theories and practices, and composition in early nineteenth-century Vienna. Until now, the unique theatricality of chamber music, and the 'social' nature of its discourse, has been poorly appreciated. Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna addresses this misconception and enriches our understanding of this crucial period of change, in which concert life began and previously 'private' music was moved out onto the stage.

Table of Contents:

• Defining chamber music in the early nineteenth century
• Celebrating Haydn, cultivating opera
• Selling string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna
• Locating string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna
• Early nineteenth-century performance and criticism
• Sociability, showmanship, and study : "quartet friends"
• The string quartet and the listener
• Schubert's song, Beethoven's theatricality
• Epilogue : constructing "Viennese chamber music."

Author/Creator:

November, Nancy , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Main Work:

Cultivating string quartets in Beethoven's Vienna [by November, N.]

Subjects:

String quartet — Austria — Vienna — 19th century — History

Music — Social aspects — Austria — Vienna — 19th century

1800-1899

Music — Social aspects

Music

String quartet

Austria — Vienna

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index.

Physical Description:

ix, 258 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

ML1160 .N68 2017

ISBNs:

9781783272327 (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017562733

OCLC Numbers:

972862981