Music 308: Music in Vienna 1875-1925: Books
Books focused on Vienna
The Viennese Café and Fin-De-Siècle CultureCall Number: e-bookThe Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900: home and workplace, leisure and intellectual exchange.
A Kingdom Not of This World by Call Number: e-bookIn fin-de-siecle Vienna, utopian artists drew inspiration from the work of Wagner. Here are new perspectives on music by Mahler, Schoenberg, and Zemlinsky, art by Klimt, Max Klinger, and members of the Vienna Secession, and philosophical writings by Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Maurice Maeterlinck.
VIENNESE WALTZ: DECADENCE AND THE DECLINE OF AUSTRIA'S UNCONSCIOUS by Call Number: on orderPublication Date: 2022Shows how over the hundred years between the Vienna Congress and the dissolution of the Empire, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artifice-covering with glitz and glamour the poverty and war central to the time-to the link between the three classes, between man and nature, and between Viennese and "Other."
Books focused on Operetta
The Cambridge Companion to OperettaCall Number: e-bookEssays about the key figures in operetta from the 1850s to the early 1930s.
Operetta: A Sourcebook, Volume 1 by Call Number: e-bookAn art form with its own special flavour and concerns, especially in Austria-Hungary, Viennese operetta flourished with the Habsburg Empire. The principal composers are considered in chronological sequence, with biographical material and a list of stage works, selected synopses and some commentary.
Operetta: A Sourcebook, Volume 2 by Call Number: e-bookThe principal composers are considered in chronological sequence, with biographical material and a list of stage works, selected synopses and some commentary.
Operetta: A Theatrical History by Call Number: e-bookHistory of operetta people and productions, from mid-19th century Europe onward. Covers all of the landmark works by Strauss, Franz Lehar, and many more.
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Books about Composers
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Brahms and His World by Call Number: ebookInfluence upon Arnold Schoenberg and other composers. A selection of memoirs by Brahms's friends, students, and admirers (e.g., Heuberger) provides intimate glimpses into the composer's working methods and personality.
A Schoenberg Reader by Call Number: e-bookFresh insights into the composer's life, work, and thought, his evolving Jewish identity, and his close interactions with Gustav and Alma Mahler.
Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna by Call Number: ebookLooks at music, cultural identity, and political ideology in late-nineteenth-century Vienna via notable composers who were Austrian citizens,e.g., Carl Goldmark.
Comparative Hungarian Cultural StudiesCall Number: ebook chapterSee chapter "Jewish (Over)tones in Viennese and Budapest Operetta," about Kálmán's piece Csárdásfürstin
Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna by Call Number: e-bookLooks at the works of Jewish composers in fin de siècle Vienna, including Gustav Mahler's 2nd symphony (chapter 2).
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