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Musical Politics at Midcentury

Musical Politics at Midcentury. Historicism and the New German School. Historicism and the Hegelian Dialect. Historicism: defining of social and cultural situations by their history Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 1770–1831 ) Franz Brendel ( 1811–1868 ) Dialectic thesis antithesis

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Musical Politics at Midcentury

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  1. Musical Politics at Midcentury Historicism and the New German School

  2. Historicism and the Hegelian Dialect • Historicism: defining of social and cultural situations by their history • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) • Franz Brendel (1811–1868) • Dialectic • thesis • antithesis • synthesis

  3. The New German School • Brendel • “New German School” “progress to a new consciousness” • Liszt, Berlioz, Wagner • Joachim Raff (1822–1882) • Peter Cornelius (1824–1874) • Hans von Bülow (1830–1894)

  4. The New German School • Liszt • Symphonic Poems • “unity of the poetic and the musical” • Piano Sonata in B minor • “organic” continuity • “thematic transformation”

  5. Absolute Music • Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904) • Vommusikalisch-Schönen(On the Musically Beautiful)

  6. Liszt’s Symphonic Poems • SymphonischeDichtungen • Composed 12 between 1848 and 1858 • Les Préludes [Anthology 2-51] • The Great Question • Love • Storm • Pastoral Calm • Battle and Victory

  7. The Concerto Transformed • Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 (1844) [Anthology 2-52] • impression of “organic” structural unity • Schumann, Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 • Liszt, Concerto No. 1 in E♭ Major

  8. Genre Trouble:Berlioz Again • Berlioz, Harold en Italie(1834) • for viola and orchestra • non-virtuosic concerto

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