Leipzig, Germany, is best known as the city where renowned composer J. S. Bach worked. But the century after his death in 1750 was critically important as well. This book examines how music in Leipzig responded to repeated threats, including changing middle-class musical tastes and the chaos of the Napoleonic wars.
Leipzig, Germany, is best known as the city where renowned composer J. S. Bach worked. But the century after his death in 1750 was critically important as well. This book examines how music in Leipzig responded to repeated threats, including changing middle-class musical tastes and the chaos of the Napoleonic wars.
Jeffrey S. Sposato is Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of Graduate Studies at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. His book The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition (OUP, 2006) was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2006 and a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award finalist. His other publications include William Thomas McKinley: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1995), as well as articles and reviews in 19th-Century Music, Music & Letters, Choral Journal, Musical Quarterly, Ars Lyrica, Notes, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), and several edited collections.
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List of Illustrations List of Musical Examples List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction I Leipzig, Saxony, and Lutheran Orthodoxy Saxony and the Birth of the Reformation The Establishment of Orthodoxy in Saxony Threats to Orthodoxy: Pietism and Rationalism A Catholic King Leipzig and the Lutheran Mass II Church Music and the Rise of the Public Concert, 1743-85 From Collegium to Concert Bach, the Cantata, and the Concerted Mass Gottlob Harrer and the New Era of Leipzig Church Music Johann Friedrich Doles and Approachable Church Music Hiller, Church Music, and the Grosse Concert The Gewandhaus III Hiller, Schicht, and the Crises of Church and State, 1785-1823 Hiller as Thomaskantor The Cantor, the Superintendent, and the Crisis in the Church August Müller and the Invasion of Leipzig Schicht and the Transformation of Gewandhaus Sacred Music IV Mendelssohn and the Transformation of Leipzig Musical Culture Schulz, Pohlenz, and a Demand for Change at the Gewandhaus Mendelssohn and a New Vision for Music in Leipzig Programming Trends Mendelssohn and Serious Music "They prefer to ignore Weinlig" An Ally for Change: Moritz Hauptmann as Thomaskantor Epilogue Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations List of Musical Examples List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction I Leipzig, Saxony, and Lutheran Orthodoxy Saxony and the Birth of the Reformation The Establishment of Orthodoxy in Saxony Threats to Orthodoxy: Pietism and Rationalism A Catholic King Leipzig and the Lutheran Mass II Church Music and the Rise of the Public Concert, 1743-85 From Collegium to Concert Bach, the Cantata, and the Concerted Mass Gottlob Harrer and the New Era of Leipzig Church Music Johann Friedrich Doles and Approachable Church Music Hiller, Church Music, and the Grosse Concert The Gewandhaus III Hiller, Schicht, and the Crises of Church and State, 1785-1823 Hiller as Thomaskantor The Cantor, the Superintendent, and the Crisis in the Church August Müller and the Invasion of Leipzig Schicht and the Transformation of Gewandhaus Sacred Music IV Mendelssohn and the Transformation of Leipzig Musical Culture Schulz, Pohlenz, and a Demand for Change at the Gewandhaus Mendelssohn and a New Vision for Music in Leipzig Programming Trends Mendelssohn and Serious Music "They prefer to ignore Weinlig" An Ally for Change: Moritz Hauptmann as Thomaskantor Epilogue Bibliography Index
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