Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth-Century Germany

by Alexander Rehding

Book Overview

A few weeks after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein raised his baton above the ruins of the Berlin Wall and conducted a special arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The central statement of the work, that "all men will be brothers," captured the sentiment of those who saw a brighter future for the newly reunited nation. This now-iconic performance is a palpable example of "musical monumentality" - a significant concept that underlies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190656131
• ISBN13: 9780190656133
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"