| Contents |
Part one. Politics and social life. Vienna in its European context / Raymond Erickson -- People, class structure, and society / Waltraud Heindl -- The Congress of Vienna / Enno Kraehe -- Part two. Musical life. "Classic" and "Romantic" Beethoven and Schubert / Leon Plantinga -- Vienna, city of music / Alice M. Hanson -- Social dancing in Schubert's world / Elizabeth Aldrich -- Part three. The other arts. Architecture and sculpture / Thomas DaCosta Kaufman -- Viennese Biedermeier painting / Gerbert Frodl -- The poetry of Schubert's songs / Jane K. Brown -- The Viennese theater / Simon Williams -- Afterword: Vienna's Schubert / Ernst Hilmar. |
| Abstract |
Eminent authorities examine Vienna's history and politics, class structure, and social conventions. They describe private and public entertainments, including music and dance, as well as classical and popular Viennese theater, both of which achieved special greatness in the early nineteenth century. They investigate the historical layers of architecture and sculpture that preserved Vienna's past or reflected the imperatives of Schubert's time. They analyze genres of painting that exemplified or went beyond the ideals of Biedermeier society. And they discuss literary currents reflected in (or absent from) the poetry that fired Schubert's musical imagination. |
| Local note | Little-306086--305131011596Z |
| General note | An Aston Magna Academy book. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 97010707 |
| ISBN | 0300070802 (cloth : alk. paper) |
