Nancy November

Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini

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Produktbeschreibung

"The many and varied domestic musical arrangements of opera that circulated in Vienna provide a unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making. This study takes a novel stance for musicology, prioritising musical arrangements over original compositions, and female amateurs' perspectives over those of composers"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781009409803
• ISBN-10: 1009409808
• Artikelnr.: 68644476

Autorenporträt

Nancy November is a Professor of Musicology at the University of Auckland. Combining interdisciplinarity and cultural history, her research centers on chamber music around 1800, probing questions of historiography, canonization, and genre. She is the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship; and three Marsden Grants from the New Zealand Royal Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Opera in the 'fruitful age of musical translations'
2. Kenner und Liebhaber: Meeting the domestic market
3. Female agency in the early nineteenth-century Viennese musical salon
4. Canon formation, domestication, and opera
5. Rossini 'as the Viennese Liked it'
6. Industry, agency, and opera arrangements in Czerny's Vienna
Acknowledgements
Bibliography.