Political Culture and Schubert's Stadtpark Monument
1897: The Politics of a Schubert Year
Gustav Klimt's Schubert
Schubert and Jung-Wien: Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo von
Hofmannsthal
Schubert, Modernism, and the Fin-de-Siècle Science of Sexuality
Peter Altenberg's Schubert
Arnold Schoenberg's Schubert
Scott Messing is Charles A. Dana Professor of Music at Alma College.
Viewing fin de siècle Viennese culture through the lens of Schubert
reception [in vol. 2] proves a highly rewarding exercise, and
Messing's work deserves to attract the attention of scholars from a
wide range of disciplines. . . . Engages with a striking breadth of
texts and artefacts . . . from cartoons and kitschy postcards to
Gustav Klimt's [painting] Schubert am Klavier and Schoenberg's
strings quartets.
*MUSIC AND LETTERS*
This is cultural history at its best -- 'thick' history that
uncovers the multiple, fascinating forces at work between the
centennial celebrations of Schubert's birth and death. A dazzling
work of reception history, Messing's book illuminates Schubert's
role in the politics of gender, race, and cultural identity in
fin-de-siècle Vienna. In so doing it provides the long-awaited
musical counterpart to Carl Schorske's classic study Fin-de-siècle
Vienna: Politics and Culture. --Glenn Watkins, Earl V. Moore
Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, and author of Proof
Through the Night: Music and the Great War
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A graceful, far-ranging, important study of fin-de-siècle
perceptions of the Viennese composer as they affected national
politics and cultural self-definition in the early twentieth
century. The conceptual legacy of a feminine Schubert is
scrutinized through the lens of political history, art, literature,
music, and the inquisitive but choosy new science of sexuality.
Proceeding with the contagious tempo of a fine mystery novel, this
is 'reception history' at its broadest, yet most exacting, often
surprising best. --Alessandra Comini, University Distinguished
Professor of Art History Emerita, Southern Methodist University
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