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Choral Fantasies - Music, Festivity, and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Book)
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Choral Fantasies - Music, Festivity, and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Book)
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Most histories of nineteenth-century music portray 'the people'
merely as an audience, a passive spectator to the music performed
around it. Yet, in this reappraisal of choral singing and public
culture, Minor shows how a burgeoning German bourgeoisie sang of
its own collective aspirations, mediated through the voice of
celebrity composers. As both performer and idealized community, the
chorus embodied the possibilities and limitations of a
participatory, national identity. Starting with the many public
festivals at which the chorus was a featured participant, Minor's
account of the music written for these occasions breaks new ground
not only by taking seriously these often-neglected works, but also
by showing how the contested ideals of German nationhood suffused
the music itself. In situating both music and festive culture
within the milieu of German bourgeois liberals, this study uncovers
new connections between music and politics during a century that
sought to redefine both spheres.
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