The Correspondence of Christian Gottfried Krause: A Music Lover in the Age of Sensibility

by Darrell M. Berg

Overview

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 h

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000672909
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/03/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	306
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dr Darrell M. Berg is Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Washington University -- St Louis, USA

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

’... 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

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