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Author Hirt, Katherine Maree.

Title When machines play Chopin : musical spirit and automation in nineteenth-century German literature / Katherine Hirt.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (170 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, 1861-8030 ; v. 8
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Towards autonomy : imitation and expression at the turn of the nineteenth century -- E.T.A. Hoffmann's aesthetics of music and musical machines in "The Automata," "The Sandman" and music reviews -- Schopenhauer and Hanslick : toward a definition of instrumental music as an autonomous art -- Virtuosity and the experience of listening in Heinrich Heine's music criticism and "Florentine nights" -- Rilke's phonograph : the "talking machine" and imagined sound.
Summary WhenMachines Play Chopin brings together music aesthetics, performance practices, and the history of automated musical instruments in nineteenth-century German literature. Philosophers defined music as a direct expression of human emotion while soloists competed with one another to display machine-like technical perfection at their instruments. WhenMachines Play Chopin looks at this paradox between thinking about and practicing music to show what three literary works say about automation and the sublime in art.
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Subject German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
German literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Musical instruments in literature.
Musical instruments in literature.
Music in literature.
Music in literature.
Music and literature -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
Music and literature.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hirt, Katherine Maree. When machines play Chopin. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2010 9783110232394 (DLC) 2010013654 (OCoLC)606053798
ISBN 9783110232400 (electronic book)
3110232405 (electronic book)
3110232391 (hardcopy ; alkaline paper)
9783110232394 (hardcopy ; alkaline paper)
9783110232394 (hardcopy ; alkaline paper)