Lateness and Brahms: Music and Culture in the Twilight of Viennese Liberalism (AMS Studies in Music) - Hardcover

Notley, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195305477 ISBN 13: 9780195305470

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Lateness and Brahms takes up the fascinating, yet understudied problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Brahms's conspicuous and puzzling absence in previous scholarly accounts of the time and place raises important questions, and as Margaret Notley demonstrates, the tendency to view him in neutralized, ahistorical terms has made his music seem far less interesting than it truly is.

In pursuit of an historical Brahms, Notley focuses on the later chamber music, drawing on various documents and perspectives, but with particular emphasis on the relevance of Western Marxist critical traditions.

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Notley, an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of North Texas, has published widely on a number of topics. Her article "Late-Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music and the Cult of the Classical Adagio" won the 2000 Alfred Einstein Award given by the American Musicological Society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195305477
• ISBN 13: 9780195305470
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254