Table of Contents

1. Nineteenth-Century Music and Its Contexts

2. The Romantic Imagination

3. Music and the Age of Metternich

4. The Opera Industry

5. Making Music Matter: Criticism and Performance

6. Making Music Speak: Program Music and the Character Piece

7. Beyond Romanticism

8. Richard Wagner and Wagnerism

9. Verdi, Operetta, and Popular Appeal

10. Concert Culture and the “Great” Symphony

11. Musical Life and Identity in the United States

12. The Fin de Siècle and the Emergence of Modernism

13. The Sound of Nineteenth-Century Music

About the Author

Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Brahms: The Four Symphonies, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg 1903–1908, and German Modernism: Music and the Arts. He is the recipient of two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Brahms: The Four Symphonies, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg 1903–1908, and German Modernism: Music and the Arts. He is the recipient of two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.