[4] October 10 — Was classical music German?
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Click on "Listen to audio clips in context" below for greater detail about the musical clips.Assigned readings:
Carl Dahlhaus, "Nationalism and music," Between Romanticism and Modernism (1980), 79–101.
Fryderyk Chopin, Sonata in B-flat minor, op. 35, first movement (1836):
Robert Schumann, "New sonatas for piano" (excerpt), Gesammelte Schriften für Musik und Musiker, vol. 4 (1854 [1841]), 21–25. [German]
Mikhail Glinka, symphonic fantasy Kamarinskaia (1848):
Marina Frolova-Walker, "Against Germanic reasoning: The search for a Russian style of musical argumentation," in Musical Constructions of Nationalism (2001), 104–122.
Further reading:
Celia Applegate, “How German Is It? Nationalism and the Idea of Serious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century,” 19th-Century Music 21 (1998): 274–96.
Ed. de B... v..., "De la musique au dix-neuvième siècle," Le Figaro (27 January 1839).
Kornél Ábrányi, "A nemzetiesség jogosultsága a művészetben s főleg a zenészetben," Fővárosi Lapok (1 January 1874): 5-6.
David Brodbeck, Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna. Defining Deutschtum (2014).["Bohemian Muse" -- Click on image for larger version]