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Hans Christian Andersen and Music - The Nightingale Revealed (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Hans Christian Andersen and Music - The Nightingale Revealed (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Hans Christian Andersen was the most prominent Danish author of the
nineteenth century. Now known primarily for his fairy tales, during
his lifetime he was equally famous for his novels, travelogues,
poetry, and stage works, and it was through these genres that he
most often reflected on the world around him. With the bicentennial
of Andersen's birth in 2005, there is still much about the writer
that is not yet common knowledge. This book explores a single
aspect of that void - his interest in and relationship to the
musical culture of nineteenth-century Europe. Why look to Andersen
for information about music? To begin, Andersen had a musical
background. He enjoyed a brief career as an opera singer and dancer
at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen, and in later years he went on
to produce opera libretti for the Danish and German stage. Andersen
was also an avid music devotee. He made thirty major European tours
during his seventy years, and on each of these trips he regularly
attended opera and concert performances, recording his impressions
in a series of travel diaries. In short, Andersen was a
well-informed listener, and as this book reveals, his reflections
on the music of his age serve as valuable sources for the study of
music reception in the nineteenth century. Over the course of his
life, Andersen embraced and then later rejected performers such as
Maria Malibran, Franz Liszt, and Ole Bull, and his interest in
opera and instrumental music underwent a series of dramatic
transformations. In his final years, Andersen promoted figures as
disparate as Wagner and Mendelssohn, while strongly objecting to
Brahms. Although such changes in taste might be interpreted as
indiscriminate by modern-day readers, this study shows that such
shifts in opinion were not contradictory, but rather quite logical
given the social and cultural climate of the age.
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