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Leipzig After Bach - Church and Concert Life in a German City (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,381
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Leipzig After Bach - Church and Concert Life in a German City (Hardcover): Jeffrey S Sposato

Leipzig After Bach - Church and Concert Life in a German City (Hardcover)

Jeffrey S Sposato

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Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847. But the century in between these events was critically important as well. During this period, Leipzig's church music enterprise was convulsed by repeated external threats-a growing middle class that viewed music as an object of public consumption, religious and political tumult, and the chaos of the Seven Years and Napoleonic wars. Jeffrey S. Sposato's Leipzig After Bach examines how these forces changed church and concert life in Leipzig. Whereas most European cities saw their public concerts grow out of secular institutions such as a royal court or an opera theater, neither of these existed when Leipzig's first subscription concert series, the Grosse Concert, was started in 1743. Instead, the city had a thriving Lutheran church-music enterprise that had been brought to its zenith by Bach. Paid subscription concerts therefore found their roots in Leipzig's church music tradition, with important and unique results. These included a revolving door between the Thomaskantor position and the Gewandhaus directorship, as well as public concerts with a distinctly sacred flavor. Late in the century, as church attendance faltered and demand for subscription concerts rose, the Gewandhaus dominated the musical life of Leipzig, influencing church music programming in turn. Examining liturgical documents, orchestral programs, and dozens of unpublished works of church and concert music, Leipzig After Bach sheds new light on a century that redefined the relationship between sacred and secular musical institutions.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2018
Authors: Jeffrey S Sposato (Associate Professor of Musicology)
Dimensions: 243 x 165 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-061695-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Other types of music > Sacred & religious music
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > World music
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > World music
Books > Music > Other types of music > Sacred & religious music
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Christianity
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LSN: 0-19-061695-4
Barcode: 9780190616953

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