Hensel

String Quartet in E flat
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-07489-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 174 g

Reihe: New Cambridge Music Handbooks

The String Quartet in E flat major (1834) by Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, is one of the most important works by a female composer written in the nineteenth century. Composed at a turning point in her life (as Hensel was not only grappling with her own creative voice but also coming to terms with her identity as a married woman, and the role her family expected of her), the quartet is significant in showing a woman composing in a genre that was then almost exclusively the domain of male artists. Benedict Taylor's illuminating book situates itself within developing scholarly discourse on the music of women composers, going beyond apologetics – or condemnation of those who hindered their development – to examine the strength and qualities of the music and how it responded to the most progressive works of the period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Benedict

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassik (ca. 1750-1830)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Genesis and private reception; 4. First movement: Adagio ma non troppo; 5. Second movement: Allegretto; 6. Third movement: Romanza; 7. Finale: Allegro molto vivace; 8. Responding to the Quartet.

Über Autor(innen)

Taylor, Benedict
Benedict Taylor is Reader at the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh. Publications include Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form (2011), The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (2016), and Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann (2022).