Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin
- Editor: Cypess, Rebecca
- Editor: Sinkoff, Nancy
Sara Itzig Levy (1761-1854)...made important contributions to her time as a performer, music collector, salon hostess, and patron . . . Scholars gathered from many fields illuminate her life... — More…
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Contents
- Introduction: Experiencing Sara Levy's World
- Part One: Portrait of a Jewish Female Artist: Music, Identity, Image
- What Was the Berlin Jewish Salon Around 1800?
- Sara Levy's Musical Salon and Her Bach Collection
- Remaining Within the Fold: The Cultural and Social World of Sara Levy
- Women's Voices in Bach's Musical World: Christiane Mariane von Ziegler and Faustina Bordoni
- Part Two: Music, Aesthetics, and Philosophy: Jews and Christians in Sara Levy's World
- Lessing and the Limits of Enlightenment
- Poetry, Music, and the Limits of Harmony: Mendelssohn's Aesthetic Critique of Christianity
- Longing for the Sublime: Jewish Self-Consciousness and the St. Matthew Passion in Biedermeier Berlin
- Part Three: Studies in Sara Levy's Collection
- Duets in the Collection of Sara Levy and the Ideal of "Unity in Multiplicity"
- The Sociability of Salon Culture and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Quartets
- Appendix: The Salonniere and the Diplomat: Letters from Sara Levy to Karl Gustav von Brinckmann
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index