The Strauss Dynasty And Habsburg Vienna

Author : David Wyn Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009276476
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna written by David Wyn Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A zesty biography reassessing the Strauss family's musical achievements within wider Habsburg society and its cultural life as a whole.

Author : David Wyn Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781009276443
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna written by David Wyn Jones and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Placing the Strauss dynasty firmly within the shifting context of social, political and cultural life in Habsburg Vienna, this zesty new biography reveals the four composers as never before, re-evaluating their music and musical achievements in Viennese society across a hundred years"--

Author : John Suchet
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250094119
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Waltz written by John Suchet and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Elliott and Thompson Limited, 2015.

Author : Thomas Baumert
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031432266
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Music, Money and Markets written by Thomas Baumert and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that Bach invested in mines? That Rossini improved his income by running casinos in the opera houses which on weekends performed his operas? Or that Puccini composed shorter arias to make them fit the length of gramophone disks as they reported him huge revenues? Or who was, in financial terms, the most successful classical composer in history? This book —the first of its kind— studies and compares the finances of twenty classical composers in their historical and economical context. Each chapter details and quantifies the sources of income of these musicians (wages, royalties, subsidies, percentages over the number of performances, arrangements, investments in the musical sector, etc), thus allowing to estimate the income they obtained due to their artistic — primarily compositional, but also related— activities. In addition, it also estimates the composer’s expenditures, thus drawing a relatively complete image of their personal finances. This not only allows to conclude to create a ranking of composers according to their economic success, but —more importantly— for the first time gives an accurate image of the financial situation of a broad set of composers. This allows to correct many false believes while also giving new insights on the relation between economics and music history.

Author : Zoë Alexis Lang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107022681
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Johann Strauss written by Zoë Alexis Lang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoë Alexis Lang explores constructions of twentieth-century Austrian identity through an examination of commentary on Johann Strauss, Jr's waltzes.

Author : Paula Sutter Fichtner
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780233140
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Habsburgs written by Paula Sutter Fichtner and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 not only sparked the beginning of World War I—it also initiated the beginning of the end of the six-hundred-year-old Habsburg dynasty, which fell apart when the war ended, changing Europe forever. But how did the Habsburgs come to play such a decisive role in the fate of the continent? Paula Sutter Fichtner seeks to answer this question in this comprehensive account of the longest-lived European empire. Tracing the origins of the house of Habsburg to the tenth century, Fichtner identifies the principal characters in the story and explores how they were able to hold together such a culturally diverse and multiethnic state for so many centuries. She takes account of the intertwining of culture, politics, and society, revealing the strategies that enabled the dynasty’s extraordinarily long life: its dazzling mix of cultural propaganda, public performances, and cunning political maneuvering. She points out the irony that one of the crowd-pleasing performances that had enabled the Habsburg success—visiting beds of the injured—led to Ferdinand’s death and the empire’s downfall. Breathing fresh life into the history of the Habsburg reign, this accessible and authoritative history charts one of the pivotal foundation stories of modern Europe.

Author : Benjamin Curtis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441150021
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Habsburgs written by Benjamin Curtis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the history of the Habsburgs, examining their political evolution from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

Author : Anastasia Belina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107182166
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Operetta written by Anastasia Belina and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays revealing how operetta spread across borders and became popular on the musical stages of the world.

Author : Simon Winder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374711615
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe written by Simon Winder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of Germania For centuries much of Europe and the Holy Roman Empire was in the royal hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off—through luck, guile and sheer mulishness—any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe and Germany and interfered everywhere—indeed the history of Europe hardly makes sense without the House of Hapsburg. Danubia, Simon Winder's hilarious new book, plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, royalty, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages and a guinea-pig village. Full of music, piracy, religion and fighting, it is the history of a strange dynasty, and the people they ruled, who spoke many different languages, lived in a vast range of landscapes, believed in rival gods and often showed a marked ingratitude towards their oddball ruler in Vienna. Readers who discovered Simon Winder's storytelling genius and infectious curiosity in Germania will be delighted by the eccentric and fascinating tale of the Habsburgs and their world.

Author : David Wyn Jones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271078
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in Vienna 1700, 1800, 1900 written by David Wyn Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and 1900.