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Water Music - Making Music in the Spas of Europe and North America (Hardcover)
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Water Music - Making Music in the Spas of Europe and North America (Hardcover)
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Many of the most famous composers in classical music spent
considerable periods in spa towns, whether taking in the waters, or
searching for patrons among the rich and influential clientele who
frequented these pioneer resorts, or soaking up the relaxing and
decadent ambience of these enchanted and magical places. At Baden
bei Wein, Mozart wrote his Ave Verum Corpus, and Beethoven sketched
out his Ninth Symphony. Johannes Brahms spent 17 summers in
Baden-Baden, where he stayed in his own specially-built composing
cavern and consorted with Clara Schumann. Berlioz came to conduct
in Baden-Baden for nine seasons, writing his last major work,
Beatrice and Benedict, for the town's casino manager. Chopin,
Liszt, and Dvorak were each regular visitors to Carlsbad and
Marienbad. And it was in Carlsbad that Beethoven met Goethe.
Concerts, recitals, and resident orchestras have themselves played
a major role in the therapeutic regimes and the social and cultural
life of European and North American watering places since the late
eighteenth century. To this day, these spa towns continue to host
major music festivals of the highest caliber, drawing musicians and
loyal audiences on both local and international levels.
This book explores the music making that went on in the spas and
watering places in Europe and the United States during their heyday
between the early-eighteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. Music
was a hugely important part of the experience of taking a spa cure.
Bands played during the early morning and late afternoon while
people took the waters and bathed. Spa orchestras and ensembles
entertained those gathering socially or resting in assembly rooms,
pump rooms and in gardens and parks. In the evenings spa guests
enjoyed concerts, visits to the theatre, balls, dances and gambling
sessions at the casino, at all of which music played a major role.
Expert author Ian Bradley draws on original archival material and
the diaries and letters of composers. His book ranges
chronologically and geographically, beginning with Bath and Baden
near Vienna, which both flourished in the eighteenth century,
continuing through Baden-Baden, the Bohemian spas and Bad Ischl in
the nineteenth century and on to Buxton and Saratoga Springs which
saw their glory days in the early twentieth century. A concluding
chapter brings the subject up to date with a review of the musical
activities taking place in spa towns today and of the music that
accompanies treatments in modern spas, now so ubiquitous and so
important and growing a feature in the booming world of leisure,
tourism, health and well-being.
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