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Summary:

Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847. But the century in between these events was critically important as well. During this period, Leipzig's church music enterprise was convulsed by repeated external threats-a growing middle class that viewed music as an object of public consumption, religious and political tumult, and the chaos of the Seven Years and Napoleonic wars. Jeffrey S. Sposato's Leipzig After Bach examines how these forces changed church and concert life in Leipzig. Whereas most European cities saw their public concerts grow out of secular institutions such as a royal court or an opera theater, neither of these existed when Leipzig's first subscription concert series, the Grosse Concert, was started in 1743. Instead, the city had a thriving Lutheran church-music enterprise that had been brought to its zenith by Bach. Paid subscription concerts therefore found their roots in Leipzig's church music tradition, with important and unique results. These included a revolving door between the Thomaskantor position and the Gewandhaus directorship, as well as public concerts with a distinctly sacred flavor. Late in the century, as church attendance faltered and demand for subscription concerts rose, the Gewandhaus dominated the musical life of Leipzig, influencing church music programming in turn. Examining liturgical documents, orchestral programs, and dozens of unpublished works of church and concert music, Leipzig After Bach sheds new light on a century that redefined the relationship between sacred and secular musical institutions [Publisher description]

Table of Contents:

• Leipzig, Saxony, and Lutheran orthodoxy
• Church music and the rise of the public concert, 1743-1805
• Hiller, Schicht, and the crises of church and state, 1785-1823
• Mendelssohn and the transformation of Leipzig musical culture.

Author/Creator:

Sposato, Jeffrey S. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Leipzig after Bach: church and concert life in a German city [by Sposato, J.S.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Leipzig after Bach [by Sposato, J.S.] (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 — ISBN 9780190616960; LCCN 2017046366)

Subjects:

Concerts — Germany — Leipzig — History — 18th century

Concerts — Germany — Leipzig — History — 19th century

Church music — Germany — Leipzig — 18th century

Church music — Germany — Leipzig — 19th century

Music — Germany — Leipzig — 18th century — History and criticism

Music — Germany — Leipzig — 19th century — History and criticism

1700-1899

Church music

Music

Concerts

Germany — Leipzig

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index: pages 279-313.

Physical Description:

xix, 313 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

ML275.8.L4 S66 2018

ISBNs:

9780190616953 (hardcover, alkaline paper)
0190616954 (hardcover, alkaline paper)
9780190616977 (epub) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017043134

OCLC Numbers:

1004769916