Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn´s Revival of the St. Matthew Passion
Celia Applegate
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Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AVH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 610.
Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before a glittering audience of Berlin artists and intellectuals, Prussian royals, and civic notables. The concert soon became the stuff of legend, sparking a revival of interest in and performance of Bach that has continued to this day.Mendelssohn's performance gave rise to the notion that recovering and performing Bach's music was ... Read more
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Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
610g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801443893
SKU
V9780801443893
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About Celia Applegate
Celia Applegate is William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair of History and Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat and coeditor of Music and German National Identity.
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Bach in Berlin is a wonderful piece of scholarship from a leading historian of German national identity.... It is not so much an account of the revival itself, but instead an examination of how educated Germans (the Bildungsbürgertum) learned to view music as a fundamental component of German culture and how they saw Bach, especially in his vocal music, as ... Read more