The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book
explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three
different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900. The image of Vienna as a
musical city is a familiar one. Vienna has long been associated
with many of the most significant composers in Western music - from
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, through the Strauss family,
Brahms, Bruckner and Wolf, to Mahler, Lehar, Schoenberg and Webern.
Today, venerable institutions like the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Staatsoper and the Vienna Boys' Choir, together with
the shared pride of residents and visitors in its musical
inheritance, ensure that the image of a musical city is undimmed.
This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on
three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900, an approach which
allows the very different relationships between music and society
that existed in each of these periods to be distinguished.
Patronage, social function and audience are key considerations, set
within wider political and cultural developments. The volume is
populated by emperors, princes, performers, publishers and writers
as well as composers, and deals with institutional and commercial
characteristics alongside representative individual works. Music in
Vienna focusses on the political and social role of music,
broadening our understanding of the city as a musical capital. It
will appeal to a wide readership, including music historians and
political, cultural and social historians, as well as the
interested general reader. DAVID WYN JONES is Professor of Music at
Cardiff University.
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