Händel und Shakespeare

Zur Ästhetik der Tonkunst

By:

Georg Gottfried Gervinus

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Music

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Handel enjoyed considerable popularity at the end of the eighteenth century, when his music was performed in London, Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna and Breslau. However, interest in him had waned by the mid-nineteenth century, when it was rekindled by a small group of music-lovers including Georg Gervinus (1805–71), a historian of literature based in Heidelberg. Gervinus lobbied for a Handel memorial in Halle, was a founder of the first German Handel society in 1856, and in 1858 published Händel und Shakespeare, which drew parallels between his favourite writer and favourite composer. In it, after two long chapters on music history and aesthetics, he compared their intellectual development and attributed the similarities between them to their shared Germanic roots. Although the book was not a great success in its day, it marked an important turning point in European Handel studies, and is still referred to today.

Release date Australia

July 20th, 2009

Author

Georg Gottfried Gervinus

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Music

Pages

520

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Dimensions

140x216x29

ISBN-13

9781108004633

Product ID

3212414

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