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Author Titus, Barbara, 1973- author.

Title Recognizing music as an art form : Friedrich Th. Vischer and German music criticism, 1848-1887 / Barbara Titus.

Publication Info. Leuven (Belgium) : Leuven University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Music?s status as an art form was distrusted in the context of German idealist philosophy which exerted an unparalleled influence on the entire nineteenth century. Hegel insisted that the content of a work of art should be grasped in concepts in order to establish its spiritual substantiality (Geistigkeit), and that no object, word or image could accurately represent the content and meaning of a musical work. In the mid-nineteenth century, Friedrich Theodor Vischer and other Hegelian aestheticians kept insisting on art's conceptual clarity, but they adapted the aesthetic system on which this requirement had been based. Their adaptations turned out to be decisive for the development of music criticism, to such an extent that music critics used them to point out musical content and to confirm music?s autonomy as an art form. This book unravels the network of music critics and philosophers, including not only Hegel but also Franz Liszt, Franz Brendel, and Eduard Hanslick, whose works shaped public opinions of music.0.
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Subject Vischer, Friedrich Theodor, 1807-1887.
Vischer, Friedrich Theodor, 1807-1887.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- History and criticism.
Music.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Titus, Barbara. Recognizing music as an art form. Friedrich Th. Vischer and German music criticism 1848-1887. Leuven : Leuven UP 2016 9789462700550 (OCoLC)940673617
ISBN 9789461661944 (electronic book)
9461661940 (electronic book)
9789462700550
9462700559