Music in eighteenth-century Austria / edited by David Wyn Jones
1996, First Edition. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #394364
ISBN: 0521453496
Physical description; xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; "Originally presented as papers at an international conference organized by the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Musical Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff, and held at Dyffryn House, near Cardiff, in July 1991"--Preface. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction / David Wyn Jones -- Overture, symphony, and concerto. The trumpet overture and sinfonia in Vienna (1715-1822) / A. Peter Brown. The early classical violin concerto in Austria / Chappell White -- Traditions in sacred music. Haydn's Missa sunt bona mixta malis and the a cappella tradition / David Wyn Jones. Johann Baptist Vanhal and the pastoral Mass tradition / Bruce MacIntyre. The Austrian pastorella and the stylus rusticanus / Geoffrey Chew -- Opera and drama. The applausus musicus, or Singgedicht / Robert N. Freeman. The operas of Antonio Salieri as a reflection of Viennese opera, 1770-1800 / John A. Rice. Lorenzo Da Ponte's Viennese librettos / Konrad Küster. Viennese amateur or London professional? / Julian Ruston -- Pianos and pianism. The Viennese fortepiano in the eighteenth century / Eva Badura-Skoda. The Beethoven-Wölfl piano duel / Tia DeNora. Subject; Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827. Da Ponte, Lorenzo 1749-1838. Haydn, Joseph 1732-1809. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791. Reutter, Georg 1708-1772. Salieri, Antonio 1750-1825 - Opera. Vanhal, Johann Baptist 1739-1813. Wölfl, Joseph 1773-1812. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rüstungsautonomie und Äussere Sicherheit. 1700-1799. Music Austria 18th century ; Congresses.
Price: €75.00