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Schubert's Vienna

Eminent authorities examine Vienna's history and politics, class structure, and social conventions. They describe private and public entertainments, including music and dance, as well as classical and popular Viennese theater, both of which achieved special greatness in the early nineteenth century. They investigate the historical layers of architecture and sculpture that preserved Vienna's past or reflected the imperatives of Schubert's time. They analyze genres of painting that exemplified or went beyond the ideals of Biedermeier society. And they discuss literary currents reflected in (or absent from) the poetry that fired Schubert's musical imagination
Print Book, English, ©1997
Yale University Press, New Haven, ©1997
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 283 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
9780300070804, 0300070802
36675984
Part one. Politics and social life. Vienna in its European context / Raymond Erickson
People, class structure, and society / Waltraud Heindl
The Congress of Vienna / Enno Kraehe
Part two. Musical life. "Classic" and "Romantic" Beethoven and Schubert / Leon Plantinga
Vienna, city of music / Alice M. Hanson
Social dancing in Schubert's world / Elizabeth Aldrich
Part three. The other arts. Architecture and sculpture / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Viennese Biedermeier painting / Gerbert Frodl
The poetry of Schubert's songs / Jane K. Brown
The Viennese theater / Simon Williams
Afterword: Vienna's Schubert / Ernst Hilmar
"An Aston Magna Academy book"--Page [i]