Music in the Eighteenth Century

Author:   John A. Rice ,  Walter Frisch (Columbia University)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
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Pages:   336
Publication Date:   08 January 2013
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Author:   John A. Rice ,  Walter Frisch (Columbia University)
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Volume:   0
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.568kg
ISBN:  

9780393929188


ISBN 10:   0393929183
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   08 January 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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1. The Encyclopedic Century 2. Learned and Galant 3. Naples 4. Carnival Opera in Rome and Venice 5. Instrumental Music in Italy and Spain 6. Paris of the Ancien Régime 7. Georgian London 8. Vienna under Empress Maria Theresa 9. Leipzig and Berlin 10. Courts of Central Europe: Mannheim, Bayreuth, and Eisenstadt/Eszterháza 11. Galant Music in the New World 12. St. Petersburg under Catherine the Great 13. Foreigners in Paris: Gluck, Mozart, Salieri, Cherubini 14. Mozart’s Vienna 15. Prague 16. London in the 1790s 17. Vienna in the Napoleonic Era

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John Rice has taught at the University of Washington, Colby College, the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Alabama, and the University of Pittsburgh. His writings include Mozart on the Stage, Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera, and Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792–1807. He is the recipient of the American Musicological Society’s Otto Kinkeldey Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Brahms: The Four Symphonies, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg 1903–1908, and German Modernism: Music and the Arts. He is the recipient of two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

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