German Music Criticism in the Late Eighteenth Century: Aesthetic Issues in Instrumental Music

German Music Criticism in the Late Eighteenth Century: Aesthetic Issues in Instrumental Music
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | pages: 268 | 1997 | ISBN: 052158227X | PDF | 5,7 mb

Music science of the beautiful in late-eighteenth-century Germany has always been problematic because in that place was no aesthetic theory to evaluate the enormous amount of admirable>-quality instrumental music produced by composers such as Haydn and Mozart. This book derives a practical aesthetic theory from an analysis of 1,300 reviews of ministerial music published in Germany between 1760 and 1798. The reviews paper an intersection with trends in literature and philosophy, and reveal be of importance to in criteria such as genius, the expressive power of music, and the necessity of unity, several decades earlier than has previously been supposed.

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