The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini
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The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini

Historiography, Analysis, Criticism

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The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini

Historiography, Analysis, Criticism

About this book

Beethoven and Rossini have always been more than a pair of famous composers. Even during their lifetimes, they were well on the way to becoming 'Beethoven and Rossini' – a symbolic duo, who represented a contrast fundamental to Western music. This contrast was to shape the composition, performance, reception and historiography of music throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini puts leading scholars of opera and instrumental music into dialogue with each other, with the aim of unpicking the origins, consequences and fallacies of the opposition between the two composers and what they came to represent. In fifteen chapters, contributors explore topics ranging from the concert lives of early nineteenth-century capitals to the mythmaking of early cinema, and from the close analysis of individual works by Beethoven and Rossini to the cultural politics of nineteenth-century music histories.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Figures
  4. Contributors
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction: Pleasure in history
  8. Part I The age of Beethoven and Rossini?
  9. 1 Dahlhaus’s Beethoven-Rossini Stildualismus: lingering legacies of the text-event dichotomy
  10. 2 Beethoven, Rossini – and others
  11. 3 Heilige Trias, Stildualismus, Beethoven: on the limits of nineteenth-century Germanic music historiography
  12. 4 Rossini and Beethoven in the reception of Schubert
  13. Part II Senses of place
  14. 5 Two styles in 1830s London: “The form and order of a perspicuous unity”
  15. 6 Looking north: Carlo Soliva and the two styles south of the Alps
  16. 7 “More German than Beethoven”: Rossini’s Zelmira and Italian style
  17. 8 On being there in 1824
  18. Part III Rehearings
  19. 9 Making overtures
  20. 10 Beethoven dances: Prometheus and his creatures in Vienna and Milan
  21. 11 Rossinian repetitions
  22. Part IV Crossing musical cultures
  23. 12 Very much of this world: Beethoven, Rossini, and the historiography of modernity
  24. 13 Schopenhauer and Rossinian universality: on the Italianate in Schopenhauer’s metaphysics of music
  25. 14 Elements of disorder: appealing Beethoven vs. Rossini
  26. 15 Role reversal: Rossini and Beethoven in early biopics
  27. List of works cited
  28. Index