Modern German Music: Volume 1: Recollections and Criticisms (Cambridge Library Collection - Music)

Henry Fothergill Chorley was music critic of The Athenaeum for over thirty years, and published several books on the state of contemporary European music, including Music and Manners in France and Germany (1841) and Thirty Years' Musical Recollections (1862), both reissued in this series. In the two-volume Modern German Music, published in 1854, he revisits many of the topics and places discussed in the 1841 volume, but views them from the other side of the Year of Revolution, 1848, which, he argues, changed the cultural as well as the political atmosphere of the German states significantly and permanently. Lively descriptions of German cities, their culture and especially their music festivals are accompanied by extended essays on Spohr, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn, but Chorley is by no means an uncritical observer, and his comments on the rise of nationalism and militarism in the German states after 1848 now seem prophetic. Cover......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 6 PREFACE......Page 12 Contents......Page 18 A NORTH GERMAN FESTIVAL......Page 20 CHAP. I - The Journey and the Rehearsal......Page 22 CHAP. II - First Day. The Oratorio---the Dinner......Page 38 CHAP. III - Second Day. The Oratorio---the Ball......Page 57 CHAP. IV - Third Day. Mendelssohn's Concert---the Opera......Page 69 IN THE HARZ---1839......Page 92 CHAP. I - A Night on the Brocken......Page 94 CHAP. II - Rübeland......Page 124 CHAP. III - The Ross-Trappe......Page 147 GLIMPSES OF BERLIN IN 1839--40......Page 156 CHAP. I - First Impressions---" Der Freischiitz"......Page 158 CHAP. II - The Court and the Opera......Page 184 CHAP. III - "Comic Opera" in Berlin......Page 228 CHAP. IV - Quartetts and Amateurs.---1839......Page 248 CHAP. V - The "Huldigung" at Berlin.---1840......Page 266 CHAP. VI - The Theatre at Berlin from 1840 to 1848......Page 301 GLIMPSES AT DRESDEN IN 1839--40......Page 310 CHAP. I - The Opera and its Environs---1839......Page 312 CHAP. II - Organ-Playing---1840......Page 341 CHAP. III - The Opera from 1840 to 1848......Page 362