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  • Music Criticism in Vienna 1896-1897: Critically Moving Forms

    Music Criticism in Vienna 1896-1897 by McColl, Sandra;

    Critically Moving Forms

    Series: Oxford Monographs on Music;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 7 March 1996

    • ISBN 9780198165644
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages260 pages
    • Size 241x161x20 mm
    • Weight 601 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations halftones
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    Short description:

    Music Criticism in Vienna is a close study of the work of some two dozen music critics in Vienna in the fifteen months from October 1896 to December 1897, a period which saw the deaths of Bruckner and Brahms and the rise of Mahler and Richard Strauss. It reconstructs in detail the climate of musical debate in a major centre around the turn of the century.

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    Music Criticism in Vienna records a culture in which musical criticism had achieved the status of a minor art form. The period covered - October 1896 to December 1897 - was an eventful time in Vienna. Bruckner died, then Brahms; Mahler arrived; premieres of works by Czech composers coincided with increasing tension in the Empire between Czechs and Germans; Puccini's La Boheme reached Vienna on its sensational progress around the world; and the great programme music debate continued. These events and issues were recorded and debated by some two dozen critics ranging from Eduard Hanslick, widely credited with (and blamed for) raising music criticism to an art, to Heinrich Schenker. The focus of Sandra McColl's monograph is unashamedly on the critics themselves, and her reconstruction of the climate of debate about whatever music or musicians came to their notice. She illuminates the intellectual climate in which the music was created, performed and received, and provides a foundation for the study of musical criticism in the post-Hanslick generation.

    She opens her study with invaluable thumb-nail sketches of the various Viennese newspapers and journals in which music critics published their work ... this book reveals a wealth of detail about musical life in Vienna ... This study is ... very welcome. That the technical quality of the book's production is outstanding goes without saying, and there is an excellent index.

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