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Musical Politics at Midcentury
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Musical Politics at Midcentury
Historicism and the New German School
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Historicism and the Hegelian Dialect
• Historicism: defining of social and cultural situations by their history
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)• Franz Brendel (1811–1868)• Dialectic– thesis– antithesis– synthesis
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The New German School
• Brendel– “New German School” “progress to a new
consciousness”– Liszt, Berlioz, Wagner– Joachim Raff (1822–1882)– Peter Cornelius (1824–1874)– Hans von Bülow (1830–1894)
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The New German School
• Liszt– Symphonic Poems • “unity of the poetic and the musical”
– Piano Sonata in B minor• “organic” continuity• “thematic transformation”
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Absolute Music
• Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904)• Vom musikalisch-Schönen (On the Musically
Beautiful)
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Liszt’s Symphonic Poems
• Symphonische Dichtungen• Composed 12 between 1848 and 1858– Les Préludes [Anthology 2-51]• The Great Question• Love• Storm• Pastoral Calm• Battle and Victory
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The Concerto Transformed
• Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 (1844) [Anthology 2-52]• impression of “organic” structural unity
• Schumann, Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54• Liszt, Concerto No. 1 in E♭ Major
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Genre Trouble:Berlioz Again
• Berlioz, Harold en Italie (1834)– for viola and orchestra– non-virtuosic concerto