Christina Bashford

The Pursuit of High Culture (eBook, PDF)

John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London

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Produktbeschreibung

This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union.

This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union [1845-81], an eminent, long-lived institution for chamber music, much fêted across Europe in its day. It combines a biography of Ella with a social-economic history of the Musical Union, its players, repertoire and audiences, and sets them against the gradually shifting contexts for London concerts, chamber music and cultural life. Ella's extraordinary life story, which began in provincial, artisan-class obscurity and ended in the upper echelons of London society, shapes thenarrative. Such themes as entrepreneurship, concert management, taste shaping, music appreciation and elite social networks are discussed throughout, as is the curious interplay between the desire to 'sacralize' chamber music, especially Beethoven's, on the one hand, and the need to survive amid the increasing commercial imperatives of London concert life on the other.
CHRISTINA BASHFORD is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846155833
• Artikelnr.: 56164071

Autorenporträt

CHRISTINA BASHFORD is Assistant Professor of Musicology and Strings at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Case for Ella From Leicester to London
1802-29 Successes
Frustrations
Ambitions
1828-44 Establishing the Musical Union
1845-8 Consolidation and Expansion
1849-57 New Spaces
1858-68 Adapting to Survive
1868-79 Endings (1880-88) and Legacy