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Author Applegate, Celia

Title Bach in Berlin : nation and culture in Mendelssohn's revival of the St. Matthew Passion / Celia Applegate
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : illustrations
Series JSTOR EBA
Contents Great expectations : Mendelssohn and the St. Matthew Passion -- Toward a music aesthetics of the nation -- Music journalism and the formation of judgment -- Musical amateurism and the exercise of taste -- The St. Matthew Passion in concert : Protestantism, historicism, and sacred music -- Beyond 1829 : musical culture, national culture
Summary In this book, Celia Applegate asks why the 1829 performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion crystallized the hitherto inchoate notion that music was central to Germans' collective identity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Matthäuspassion.
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Appreciation
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Appreciation
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Matthäuspassion
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
SUBJECT Matthäuspassion (Bach, Johann Sebastian) fast
Subject Music -- Social aspects -- Germany
Music -- Germany -- 19th century -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
Art appreciation
Music
Music -- Social aspects
Matthäus Passion (Bach)
Muziekuitvoeringen.
Germany
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005013205
ISBN 0801455820
9780801455827
080144389X
9780801443893