This Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music provides detailed and
authoritative articles for the most important composers, concepts,
genres, music educators, performers, theorists, writings, and works
of cultivated music in Europe and the Americas during the period
1789-1914. The roster of biographical entries includes not only
canonical composers such as Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Chopin,
Faure, Grieg, Liszt, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mussorgsky, Rossini,
Schubert, Robert Schumann, Sibelius, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi,
Wagner, and Wolf, but also less-well-known distinguished
contemporaries of those composers (among them George Whitefield
Chadwick, Cecile Chaminade, Ernesto Elorduy, Chiquinha Gonzaga,
Fanny Hensel, C. H. Parry, and Clara Schumann, to name but a few).
Significant literary and cultural topics such as Goethe's Faust and
Wagner's theoretical writings of the 1850s, as well as entries on
other cultural luminaries who significantly influenced music's
Romanticisms - among them J. S. Bach, Goethe, Haydn, Handel, Heine,
Mozart, Schiller, and Shakespeare - are also included. Entries on
important institutions (conservatory, orpheon, Mannerchor),
concepts (biographical fallacy, copyright, exoticism, feminism,
nationalism, performance practice), and political caesurae and
movements (First and Second French Empire, First, Second, and Third
French Republic, Franco-Prussian War, Revolutions of 1848,
Risorgimento) round out the dictionary section. Like other volumes
in this series, this book's more than 500 entries are preceded by
an introductory essay that explains the essential concepts
necessary for understanding and exploring further the vast and
complex musical landscape of Romanticism, plus a detailed
Chronology. Concluding the volume is an extensive bibliography that
lists the most important source-critical series of editions of
Romantic music, important general writings on the period and its
music, and composer-by-composer bibliographies.
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