1st Edition
The Correspondence of Christian Gottfried Krause: A Music Lover in the Age of Sensibility
By Darrell M. Berg
Copyright 2009
306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
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The fascinating correspondence of the Berlin lawyer and musician Christian Gottfried Krause is an important document reflecting the trends and developments in aesthetics, music theory and music making in the Prussian capital during the reign of Frederick the Great. Krause's letters shed light on the rise of a bourgeois music culture, which during his lifetime gradually replaced the traditional... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Musical interests; Intellectual background and interests; The Gleim circle; Contents of the Krause correspondence; Editorial policy. The Krause correspondence in German and English; Appendix: lieder that Krause set to music; Glossary of names; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dr Darrell M. Berg is Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Washington University -- St Louis, USA
’... a wealth of background information that will fill gaps in [our] understanding of mid-18-century Berlin. ...Darrell Berg has done a lot of work on these letters (especially in terms of digging around to find out more about the people involved), and that is to be highly commended...’ Early Music Review ’[The letters] are beautifully presented in parallel translation (English on the left and transcriptions of the original German letters, including all deletions, on the right) with extensive and meticulous notes. ’ German History
