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This magnificent survey of the most popular period in music history is an extended essay embracing music, aesthetics, social history, and politics, by one of the keenest minds writing on music in the world today. Dahlhaus organizes his book around 'watershed' years - for example, 1830, the year of the July Revolution in France, and around which coalesce the 'demise of the age of art' proclaimed by Heine, the musical consequences of the deaths of Beethoven and Schubert, the simultaneous and dramatic appearance of Chopin and Liszt, Berlioz and Meyerbeer, and Schumann and Mendelssohn. But he keeps us constantly on guard against generalization and cliche. Cherished concepts like Romanticism, tradition, nationalism vs. universality, the musical culture of the bourgeoisie, are put to pointed re-evaluation. Always demonstrating the interest in socio-historical influences that is the hallmark of his work, Dahlhaus reminds us of the contradictions, interrelationships, psychological nuances, and riches of musical character and musical life."Nineteenth-Century Music" contains 90 illustrations, the collected captions of which come close to providing a summary of the work and the author's methods. Technical language is kept to a minimum, but while remaining accessible, Dahlhaus challenges, braces, and excites. This is a landmark study that no one seriously interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture will be able to ignore.
Carl Dahlhaus was, at the time of his death in 1989, Professor of Music at Technische Universitat Berlin.
List of IllustrationsCHAPTER ONE IntroductionThe Nineteenth Century as Past and PresentThe Twin StylesMusic and RomanticismTradition and RestorationNationalism and UniversalityThe Music Culture of the BourgeoisieBibliographic ReferencesCHAPTER TWO 1814-1830Rossini and the RestorationOpera comique and German OperaBeethoven: Myth and ReceptionBeethoven's Late StyleThe Metaphysic of Instrumental MusicLied TraditionsThe Idea of Folk SongBibliographic ReferencesCHAPTER THREE 1830-1848Melodie lunghe: Bellini and DonizettiThe Dramaturgy of Grand OperaVirtuosity and InterpretationPoetic MusicThe Symphony after BeethovenChoral Music as a Form of EducationRomanticism and Biedermeier MusicChurch Music and Bourgeois SpiritBibliographic ReferencesCHAPTER FOUR 1848-1870Wagner's Conception of Musical DramaOpera as Drama: VerdiThe Idea of National OperaOpera bouffe, Operetta, Savoy OperaThe Symphonic PoemMusic Criticism as Philosophy of HistoryBrahms and the Chamber Music TraditionBibliographic ReferencesCHAPTER FIVE 1870-1889The Second Age of the SymphonyDrame lyrique and Operatic RealismArs gallicaRussian Music: Epic OperaExoticism, Folklorism, ArchaismTrivial MusicHistoricismBibliographic ReferencesCHAPTER SIX 1889-1914Modernism as a Period in Music HistoryPost-Wagnerian OperaMelodrama and VerismoProgram Music and the Art Work ofldeasLinguistic Character and the Disintegration of TonalityEmancipation of DissonanceBibliographic ReferencesCHAPTER SEVEN End of an EraGlossaryIndex
"No other book about the period so engages the thoughtful reader."
