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Goethe and Zelter: Musical Dialogues (Paperback)
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Goethe and Zelter: Musical Dialogues (Paperback)
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Goethe and Zelter spent a staggering 33 years corresponding or in
the case of each artist, over two thirds of their lives. Zelter's
position as director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin and Goethe's
location in Weimar resulted in a wide-ranging correspondence.
Goethe's letters offer a chronicle of his musical development, from
the time of his journey to Italy to the final months of his life.
Zelter's letters retrace his path as stonemason to Professor of
Music in Berlin. The 891 letters that passed between these artists
provide an important musical record of the music performed in
public concerts in Berlin and in the private and semi-public
soirees of the Weimar court. Their letters are those of men
actively engaged in the musical developments of their time. The
legacy contains a wide spectrum of letters, casual and thoughtfully
composed, spontaneous and written for publication, rich with the
details of Goethe's and Zelter's musical lives. Through Zelter,
Goethe gained access to the professional music world he craved and
became acquainted with the prodigious talent of Felix Mendelssohn.
A single letter from Zelter might bear a letter from Felix
Mendelssohn to another recipient of the same family, reflecting a
certain community in the Mendelssohn household where letters were
not considered private but shared with others in a circle of
friends or family. Goethe recognized the value of such
correspondence: he complains when his friend is slow to send
letters in return for those written to him by the poet, a complaint
common in this written culture where letters provided news,
introductions, literary and musical works. This famous
correspondence contains a medley of many issues in literature, art,
and science; but the main focus of this translation is the music
dialogues of these artists.
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