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Vanishing Sensibilities - Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann (Hardcover)
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Vanishing Sensibilities - Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann (Hardcover)
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Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns
that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of
their contemporaries in drama or poetry. Music, especially music
with text, was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations
about the nature of liberty, which included such topics as the role
of consent in marriage, same-sex relationships, freedom of the
press, and the freedom to worship (or not). Among the most common
vehicles for stimulating debate about pressing social concerns were
the genres of historical drama, and legend or myth, whose stories
became inflected in fascinating ways during the Age of Metternich.
Interior and imagined worlds, memories and fantasies, were called
up in purely instrumental music, and music was privately celebrated
for its ability to circumvent the restrictions that were choking
the verbal arts.
Author Kristina Muxfeldt invites us to listen in on these cultural
conversations, dating from a time when the climate of censorship
made the tone of what was said every bit as important as its
literal content. At this critical moment in European history such
things as a performer's delivery, spontaneous improvisation, or the
demeanor of the music could carry forbidden messages of hope and
political resistance--flying under the censor's radar like a
carrier pigeon. Rather than trying to decode or fix meanings,
Muxfeldt concerns herself with the very mechanisms of their
communication, and she confronts distortions to meaning that form
over time as the cultural or political pressures shaping the
original expression fade and are eventually forgotten. In these
pages are accounts of works successful in their own time alongside
others that failed to achieve more than a liminal presence, among
them Schubert's Alfonso und Estrella and his last opera project Der
Graf von Gleichen, whose libretto was banned even before Schubert
set to work composing it. Enlivening the narrative are generous
music examples, reproductions of artwork, and facsimiles of
autograph material.
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