Wagner Nights: An American History: 9 (California Studies in 19th-Century Music) - Hardcover

Horowitz, Joseph

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ISBN 10: 0520083946 ISBN 13: 9780520083943

Verlag: University of California Press, 1994

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"A landmark study of the late 19th-century, centered primarily in New York City. His scholarship is impressive, transporting us on a Rhine journey from Bayreuth to Coney Island. . . . The breadth of his book is extraordinary."--"Publishers Weekly

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As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but - as Joseph Horowitz shows in this first history of Wagnerism in the United States - the American obsession was unique. The central figure in "Wagner Nights" is conductor Anton Seidl (1850-1898), a priestly and enigmatic personage in New York musical life. Seidl's own admirers included the women of the Brooklyn-based Seidl Society, who wore the letter "S" on their dresses. In the summers, Seidl conducted fourteen times a week at Brighton Beach, filling the three-thousand-seat music pavilion to capacity. The fact that most Wagnerites were women was a distinguishing feature of American Wagnerism and constituted a vital aspect of the fin-de-siecle ferment that anticipated the New American Woman. Drawing on the work of such cultural historians as T. Jackson Lears and Lawrence Levine, Horowitz's history reveals an "Americanized" Wagner never documented before and offers a history of American culture a century ago.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0520083946
• ISBN 13: 9780520083943
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 404