The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini
Historiography, Analysis, Criticism
Benjamin Walton editor Nicholas Mathew editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:23rd Mar '17
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Leading scholars re-evaluate the opposition between Beethoven and Rossini, the great symbolic duo of early nineteenth-century music.
More than a pair of famous composers, Beethoven and Rossini came to represent an opposition that cast a shadow over the composition, performance, reception and historiography of music throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this book, leading scholars re-evaluate the great symbolic duo of early nineteenth-century music.Beethoven and Rossini have always been more than a pair of famous composers. Even during their lifetimes, they were well on the way to becoming 'Beethoven and Rossini' – a symbolic duo, who represented a contrast fundamental to Western music. This contrast was to shape the composition, performance, reception and historiography of music throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini puts leading scholars of opera and instrumental music into dialogue with each other, with the aim of unpicking the origins, consequences and fallacies of the opposition between the two composers and what they came to represent. In fifteen chapters, contributors explore topics ranging from the concert lives of early nineteenth-century capitals to the mythmaking of early cinema, and from the close analysis of individual works by Beethoven and Rossini to the cultural politics of nineteenth-century music histories.
ISBN: 9781316649541
Dimensions: 245mm x 171mm x 22mm
Weight: 700g
400 pages