Vienna

Simon P. Keefe is J. R. Hoyle Chair of Music at the University of Sheffield. He is the winner of the Emerson Award of the Mozart Society of America (2013); elected life member of the Academy for Mozart Research at the Mozarteum Salzburg (2005); President of the Royal Musical Association; and author of five monographs on Mozart.

• List of illustrations; List of tables; List of musical examples; List of contributors; Introduction Simon P. Keefe; Part I. Identity and Place: 1. Music about Vienna and the Viennese in classical, folk and popular traditions Catherine Mayes; 2. Commemorating musicians in Vienna Simon P. Keefe; 3. Ethnographic and exotic elements in Viennese musical culture: stylistic diversity in the capital of a multicultural empire Larry Wolff; Part II. Local Traditions and Instruments: 4. Music and dance Erica Buurman; 5. Private and domestic music-making Nancy November; 6. Operetta in Vienna Lisa Feurzeig; 7. Capturing the past in the present: Viennese instruments, sounds, and Instrument-makers Karina Zybina; Part III. Institutions, Organizations and Venues: 8. Institutions Morten Solvik; 9. Vienna's opera houses and theatres Claudio Vellutini; 10. Concerts and concert venues David Wyn Jones; 11. Music publishing in Vienna Rupert Ridgewell; Part IV. Composers, Performers and Critics: 12. Music and musicians in Vienna from the middle ages to the mid eighteenth century Janet K. Page; 13. Viennese musicians and musical culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Simon P. Keefe; 14. Composition in Vienna from the Vormärz to the Anschluss, 1830–1938 David Brodbeck; 15. Rupture, paradox and continuity: Vienna musical life post-1933 through 1999 Rebecca Schmid; 16. Twenty-first-century Vienna Alexander Carpenter; Guidelines for further reading; Index.

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