Brahms in the priesthood of art: gender and art religion in the nineteenth-century German musical imagination
Imperatives of Purity and Sensuality -- A Post-Romantic Priest of Music -- Priestesses of Art -- The Temptation of Opera -- Ambiguities of the Priesthood -- Prostitutes, Trauma, and Biographical Hermeneutics of the Fin-de-Siècle -- Epilogue. Musical Priesthood, Canon Formation, and the Regulation of...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Brahms, Johannes 1833-1897
/ Reception
/ History 1800-1910
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| Further subjects: | B
Music 18th century
History and criticism
B Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Criticism and interpretation B Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Appreciation History B Music Religious aspects History |
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| Summary: | Imperatives of Purity and Sensuality -- A Post-Romantic Priest of Music -- Priestesses of Art -- The Temptation of Opera -- Ambiguities of the Priesthood -- Prostitutes, Trauma, and Biographical Hermeneutics of the Fin-de-Siècle -- Epilogue. Musical Priesthood, Canon Formation, and the Regulation of Performance. "Brahms in the Priesthood of Art: Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-Century German Musical Imagination explores the intersection of gender, art religion (Kunstreligion) and other aesthetic currents in Brahms reception of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, it focuses on the theme of the self-sacrificing musician devoted to his art, or "priest of music," with its quasi-mystical and German Romantic implications of purity seemingly at odds with the lived reality of Brahms's bourgeois existence"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 019008328X |