Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment

by Berthold Hoeckner

Programming the Absolute discusses the notorious opposition between absolute and program music as a true dialectic that lies at the heart of nineteenth-century German music. Beginning with Beethoven, Berthold Hoeckner traces the aesthetic problem of musical meaning in works by Schumann, Wagner, Liszt, Mahler, and Schoenberg, whose private messages and public predicaments are emblematic for the cultural legacy of this rich repertory.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691001499
• ISBN13: 9780691001494
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.0"