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German Music Criticism in the Late 18th Century - Aesthetic Issues in Instrumental Music (Book, New ed)
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German Music Criticism in the Late 18th Century - Aesthetic Issues in Instrumental Music (Book, New ed)
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Music aesthetics in late eighteenth-century Germany has always been
problematic because there was no aesthetic theory to evaluate the
enormous amount of high-quality instrumental music produced by
composers like Haydn and Mozart. This book derives a practical
aesthetic for German instrumental music during the late eighteenth
century from a previously neglected source, reviews of printed
instrumental works. At a time when the theory of mimesis dominated
aesthetic thought, leaving sonatas and symphonies at the very
bottom of the aesthetic hierarchy, a group of reviewers were
quietly setting about the task of evaluating instrumental music on
its own terms. The reviews document an intersection with trends in
literature and philosophy, and reveal interest in criteria like
genius, the expressive power of music, and the necessity of unity,
several decades earlier than has previously been supposed.
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