Musical Amateurs as Artistic Citizens in Schubert's Vienna

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-83765-244-0
Verlag: Boydell Press

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

Details the wide, integral and influential role played by 'amateur' participants in early nineteenth-century Vienna's musical life.

During Franz Schubert's lifetime in early nineteenth-century Vienna, amateurs and dilettantes were a vital part of the music scene, so much so that Eduard Hanslick considered it the high point of musical dilettantism in Vienna. Schubert himself participated extensively in this rich world of domestic music-making. Around 1800 terms such as "amateur" and "dilettante" had broader and more positive connotations than today, and "amateurs" could indeed often portray a high skill level. The book considers the amateurs' and dilettantes' identities and motivations for making music, and their various roles in the musical life of early nineteenth-century Vienna. It dives deeply into contexts, performance practices and spaces, as well as instruments that have so far been little explored. Musical Amateurs in Schubert's Vienna uncovers new key agents in early nineteenth-century Viennese musical life who have so far remained invisible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

November, Nancy

Morris, Imogen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction
1. Amateurs and Dilettantes around 1800
2. Aloysia in Klavierland, or the Viennese Amateur Piano Boom
3. Becoming an Artistic Citizen in the Viennese Musical Salon
4. Ernst Krähmer, Mauro Giuliani, and the Organology of Outdoor Leisure
5. Amateur Composers and Viennese String Chamber Music
6. Anton Diabelli and the Economy of Musical Amateurs
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

November, Nancy
NANCY NOVEMBER is Professor of Musicology at the University of Auckland. She has published Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna with the Boydell Press (2017), and more recently Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini (CUP, 2024) and Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber (CUP, 2021);

Morris, Imogen
IMOGEN MORRIS is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Auckland.