Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 2: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

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Political Culture and Schubert's Stadtpark Monument
1897: The Politics of a Schubert Year
Gustav Klimt's Schubert
Schubert and Jung-Wien: Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Schubert, Modernism, and the Fin-de-Siecle Science of Sexuality
Peter Altenberg's Schubert
Arnold Schoenberg's Schubert

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Schubert in the European Imagination: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna examines the composer's historical and cultural reception by Viennese modernists. By 1900, issues of gender had crossed with those of nationalism, especially in thecity that came to consider Schubert as its favorite musical son. As Messing here explains and explores in rich detail, composers, writers, and visual artists manipulated the conventions of the composer and gender in ways that critiqued the very culture that had created this image. In order to expose the hypocrisy of social relationships, painter Gustav Klimt and writers Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Peter Altenberg exploited the collision between innocence and sexuality, and Schubert was a readily familiar sign for the former. The composer Arnold Schoenberg substituted his own formulation of Schubert in place of the older, popular conceptions of the composer, adding him to an illustrious list of figures whose significance he sought to redesign. Scott Messing is Charles A. Dana Professor of Music at Alma College, and author of Neoclassicism in Music (University ofRochester Press, 1996).

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Viewing fin de siecle Viennese culture through the lens of Schubert reception [in vol. 2] proves a highly rewarding exercise, and Messing's work deserves to attract the attention of scholars from a wide range of disciplines. . . . Engages with a striking breadth of texts and artefacts . . . from cartoons and kitschy postcards to Gustav Klimt's [painting] Schubert am Klavier and Schoenberg's strings quartets. -- James Garratt

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