Choral Fantasies : Music, Festivity, and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany.

Cover; Choral Fantasies; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Choral fantasies from Beethoven to the Vormärz; The choral fantasies of Beethoven and "Kuffner"; Singing and/as society; Institutions, festivals, and the Volk; A different choral fantasy; 2: Memory and multiplicity in Felix Mendelssohn's "Gutenberg" works; Genre and influence; Songs and deeds; Cultural eclecticism and the bourgeoisie; Imagined sounds and nations; Agency, history, and religion; Plurality vs. personality; 3: Prophet and populace in Liszt's "Beethoven" cantatas; BONN, 1845.

Monuments and monumentalityMusic and presence; WEIMAR, 1870; Absence and telos; A TEMPORARY RETREAT; 4: Songs and states in Brahms's Triumphlied and Wagner's Kaisermarsch; Liberalism and song in the early Gründerzeit; Shock and awe; Brahms's aesthetics of participation; Participation in context: Volksgesang vs. folksong; Nation and religion; Telling history, enacting history; 5: Occasions and nations in Brahms's Fest- und Gedenksprüche; Origins, occasions, obfuscations; Titles and genres; Fathers, sons, nations; Music and performance; A look ahead (and back); Notes to the text; Introduction.

Chapter 1: Choral fantasies from Beethoven to the VormärzChapter 2: Memory and multiplicity in Felix Mendelssohn's "Gutenberg" works; Chapter 3: Prophet and populace in Liszt's "Beethoven" cantatas; Chapter 4: Songs and states in Brahms's Triumphlied and Wagner's Kaisermarsch; Chapter 5: Occasions and nations in Brahms's Fest- und Gedenksprüche; Bibliography; Anonymous Sources; Index.

The first study to connect the exponential growth in amateur choral singing to the culture of public celebrations and festivals.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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