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Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 1 - The Romantic and Victorian Eras (Hardcover)
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Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 1 - The Romantic and Victorian Eras (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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How Franz Schubert and his compositions were viewed in
nineteenth-century European criticism, literature, and the visual
arts, from Schumann to George Eliot to Whistler. In Schubert in the
European Imagination, Volume 1: The Romantic and Victorian Eras,
Scott Messing examines the historical reception of Franz Schubert
as conveyed through the gendered imagery and language of
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European culture. The
concept of Schubert as a feminine type vaulted into prominence in
1838 when Robert Schumann described the composer's
Mädchencharakter ("girlish" character), by contrast to the
purportedly more masculine, more heroic Beethoven. What attracted
Schumann to Schubert's music and marked it as feminine is evident
in some of Schumann's own works that echo those of Schubert's in
intriguing ways. Schubert's supposedly feminine quality acted upon
the popular consciousness also through the writers and artists --
in German-speaking Europe but also in France and England -- whose
fictional characters perform and hear Schubert'smusic. The figures
discussed include Musset, Sand, Nerval, Maupassant, George Eliot,
Henry James, Beardsley, Whistler, Storm, Fontane, and Heinrich and
Thomas Mann. Over time, Schubert's stature became inextricably
entwinedwith concepts of the distinct social roles of men and
women, especially in domestic settings. For a composer whose
reputation was principally founded upon musical genres that both
the public and professionals construed as most suitable for private
performance, the lure to locate Schubert within domestic spaces and
to attach to him the attributes of its female occupants must have
been irresistible. The story told is not without its complications,
as this book reveals in an analysis of the response to Schubert in
England, where the composer's eminence was questioned by critics
whose arguments sometimes hinged on the more problematic aspects of
gender in Victorian culture. Scott Messing is Charles A. Dana
Professor of Music at Alma College, and author of Neoclassicism in
Music (University of Rochester Press, 1996).
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