Informationen zu "Antoine Reicha and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Composer"
Verlag: Laumann Druck und Verlag
Verlagsnummer: UTOQC5
EAN: 9788881095223
ISBN: 978-88-8109-522-3
Beschreibung
Morabito, Fabio, ed
Bernard de Raymond, Louise, ed
The nineteenth-century composer has a persistent image problem: inspired,
unworldly, male, writing works of genius for posterity. If it has been the
project of musicologists for the last 30 years to erode this checklist, he
lingers still like a bad smell. This book uses Antoine Reicha (1770-1836) as
a case study through which to develop alternative approaches to the
nineteenth-century composer. That Reicha was a composition teacher and
prolific writer of instruction manuals, for example, provides an opportunity
(and new types of sources) to focus on composers attempts at becoming
composers. How can we catch them in the making, exploring not a body of works
and achievements, but the priorities and anxieties of these individuals (the
knowledge they followed or created) in crafting their artistic identities for
the public? What modes of music historiography and analysis might help
explore Reichas and his contemporaries music beyond mapping it within local
or national traditions and their transfer? Can a networked model of
music-history writing - we might call it a history of music with no
protagonist - assist musicologists in working on non-canonical composers
without retrospectively making monuments out of them? These and other
questions frame this volume, in order not only to reassess Reicha, but also
our disciplinary toolkit: to ask how/why/to what end we tell stories about
composers in musicology more generally.
