Tradition Austère Qui Devient De Plus En Plus Complexe.

Diversifikation und Pluralisierung in der französischen Symphonik 1871-1914. In the decades around 1900 symphonic music flourished in France to an unprecedented degree. Immense variability and individual composers’ experimental differentiation of the genre broadened the spectrum of its manifestations to create a structure which moved between traditional contexts and revolutionary tendencies, and which –according to the diagnosis of contemporaries – was renewing and expanding itself in its ever-increasing complexity. Using contemporary sources, this study examines in detail for the first time the preconditions, manifestations and consequences of this phenomenon. The author looks at both the aesthetic debates which in France also now emphatically placed the symphony at the top of the hierarchy of musical genres, and the ideological, intellectual-historical and (cultural-) political impulses which made it possible for the establishment of the Third Republic and the symphonic ‘breakthrough’ to happen in parallel. The significant institutional developments in the nature of concerts, in public support and subsidies for artists, in training and in distribution are set out together with the history of the overall situation in terms of composition and genre. Detailed analyses, interpretations and presentations of the reception history of individual ‘key works’ offer insights into the vast span of symphonic music, and open up from each specific perspective a broad panorama of possible frameworks of understanding.

1 book (780 p.) + 1 compact disc; 21 cm.
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ISBN: 3487147106
ISBN13: 9783487147109
UPC: 9783487147109