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Book Synopsis The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna by : David Wyn Jones
Download or read book The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna written by David Wyn Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A zesty biography reassessing the Strauss family's musical achievements within wider Habsburg society and its cultural life as a whole.
Book Synopsis The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna by : David Wyn Jones
Download or read book The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna written by David Wyn Jones and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Placing the Strauss dynasty firmly within the shifting context of social, political and cultural life in Habsburg Vienna, this zesty new biography reveals the four composers as never before, re-evaluating their music and musical achievements in Viennese society across a hundred years"--
Book Synopsis The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna by : David Wyn Jones
Download or read book The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna written by David Wyn Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of the Strauss family – Johann and his three sons, Johann, Josef and Eduard – enjoys enormous popular appeal. Yet existing biographies have failed to do justice to the family's true significance in nineteenth and early twentieth-century musical history. David Wyn Jones addresses this deficiency, engagingly showing that – from Johann's first engagements in the mid-1820s to the death of Eduard in 1916 – the music making of the family was at the centre of Habsburg Viennese society as it moved between dance hall, concert hall and theatre. The Strauss industry at its height was, he demonstrates, greater than any one of the individuals, with serious personal and domestic consequences including affairs, illness, rivalry and fraud. This zesty biography, spanning over a hundred years of history, brings the dynasty brilliantly to life across a large canvas as it offers fresh and revealing insights into the cultural life of Vienna as a whole.
Download or read book The Last Waltz written by John Suchet and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured in a beautiful package, including more than fifty color photographs, The Last Waltz tells the intriguing story of of the Viennese Strauss family known for producing some of the best known, best loved music of the nineteenth century. Johann and Josef Strauss, the Waltz Kings, composed hundreds of instantly recognizable and enduring melodies, including The Blue Danube Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Voices of Spring and The Radetzky March. Their iconic music has been featured on the scores of nearly a thousand films. Yet despite their success, this was a family riven with tension, feuds and jealousy, living in a country that was undergoing seismic upheaval. Through the personal and political chaos, the Strauss family continued to compose music to which the Viennese – anxious to forget their troubles – could dance and drank champagne, even as their country hurtled towards oblivion at the hands of the First World War. Classical music expert and radio host John Suchet skillfully portrays this gripping story, capturing the family dramas, the tensions, triumphs and disasters against the turbulent backdrop of Austria in the nineteenth century, from revolution to regicide.
Book Synopsis Eduard Strauss - The Third Man of the Strauss Family by : Leigh Bailey
Download or read book Eduard Strauss - The Third Man of the Strauss Family written by Leigh Bailey and published by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eduard Strauss I (1835–1916), the youngest of the three Strauss brothers – and hence the 'third man' of the family, has always been overshadowed by his siblings Johann II and Josef. However, he was the longest lived and most widely travelled of the three and, as sole conductor and manager of the Strauss Orchestra for thirty years, brought authentic performances of his family's music to audiences in hundreds of towns and cities in Europe and North America. At home in Vienna he made an invaluable contribution to the city's musical and cultural life, while having at the same time to cope with continual tensions and problems within the Strauss family.
Book Synopsis The Legacy of Johann Strauss by : Zoë Alexis Lang
Download or read book The Legacy of Johann Strauss written by Zoë Alexis Lang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoë Alexis Lang explores constructions of twentieth-century Austrian identity through an examination of commentary on Johann Strauss, Jr's waltzes.
Book Synopsis On Music, Money and Markets by : Thomas Baumert
Download or read book On Music, Money and Markets written by Thomas Baumert and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that Bach invested in mines? That Rossini improved his income by running casinos in the opera houses which on weekends performed his operas? Or that Puccini composed shorter arias to make them fit the length of gramophone disks as they reported him huge revenues? Or who was, in financial terms, the most successful classical composer in history? This book —the first of its kind— studies and compares the finances of twenty classical composers in their historical and economical context. Each chapter details and quantifies the sources of income of these musicians (wages, royalties, subsidies, percentages over the number of performances, arrangements, investments in the musical sector, etc), thus allowing to estimate the income they obtained due to their artistic — primarily compositional, but also related— activities. In addition, it also estimates the composer’s expenditures, thus drawing a relatively complete image of their personal finances. This not only allows to conclude to create a ranking of composers according to their economic success, but —more importantly— for the first time gives an accurate image of the financial situation of a broad set of composers. This allows to correct many false believes while also giving new insights on the relation between economics and music history.
Book Synopsis The Habsburgs by : Paula Sutter Fichtner
Download or read book The Habsburgs written by Paula Sutter Fichtner and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 not only sparked the beginning of World War I—it also initiated the beginning of the end of the six-hundred-year-old Habsburg dynasty, which fell apart when the war ended, changing Europe forever. But how did the Habsburgs come to play such a decisive role in the fate of the continent? Paula Sutter Fichtner seeks to answer this question in this comprehensive account of the longest-lived European empire. Tracing the origins of the house of Habsburg to the tenth century, Fichtner identifies the principal characters in the story and explores how they were able to hold together such a culturally diverse and multiethnic state for so many centuries. She takes account of the intertwining of culture, politics, and society, revealing the strategies that enabled the dynasty’s extraordinarily long life: its dazzling mix of cultural propaganda, public performances, and cunning political maneuvering. She points out the irony that one of the crowd-pleasing performances that had enabled the Habsburg success—visiting beds of the injured—led to Ferdinand’s death and the empire’s downfall. Breathing fresh life into the history of the Habsburg reign, this accessible and authoritative history charts one of the pivotal foundation stories of modern Europe.
Book Synopsis Johann Strauss and Vienna by : Camille Crittenden
Download or read book Johann Strauss and Vienna written by Camille Crittenden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines nineteenth-century Viennese operetta and the historical context in which it was created.
Book Synopsis Three-quarter Time by : Jerome Pastene
Download or read book Three-quarter Time written by Jerome Pastene and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1951 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Operetta by : Anastasia Belina
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Operetta written by Anastasia Belina and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays revealing how operetta spread across borders and became popular on the musical stages of the world.
Book Synopsis Music in Vienna 1700, 1800, 1900 by : David Wyn Jones
Download or read book Music in Vienna 1700, 1800, 1900 written by David Wyn Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on three different epochs (1700, 1800 and 1900), this book explores the history of music in Vienna, allowing the very different relationships between music and society that existed in each of these periods to be distinguished
Download or read book The Waltz Kings written by Hans Fantel and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two great musicians whose waltzes came to symbolize Vienna in the 19th century, this book reveals a father jealous of his son's talent and a defiant son whose career flourished in spite of his father's efforts to destroy it.
Book Synopsis The Operetta Empire by : Micaela Baranello
Download or read book The Operetta Empire written by Micaela Baranello and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the world comes to an end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow." Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth‐century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life—one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day.
Book Synopsis The Waltz Kings of Old Vienna by : Ada B. Teetgen
Download or read book The Waltz Kings of Old Vienna written by Ada B. Teetgen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fall of the House of Habsburg by : Edward Crankshaw
Download or read book The Fall of the House of Habsburg written by Edward Crankshaw and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1963 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emperor Franz Josef's struggle to hold a polyglot nation together.
Book Synopsis The Habsburg Twilight by : Sarah Gainham
Download or read book The Habsburg Twilight written by Sarah Gainham and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
