Brahms and the German Spirit Beller-McKenna DanielPevná vazba
Brahms and the German Spirit Beller-McKenna DanielPevná vazba The music of Johannes Brahms is deeply colored, Daniel Beller-McKenna shows, by nineteenth-century German nationalism and by Lutheran…
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Brahms and the German Spirit Beller-McKenna DanielPevná vazba
The music of Johannes Brahms is deeply colored, Daniel Beller-McKenna shows, by nineteenth-century German nationalism and by Lutheran religion. Beller-McKenna counters this tendency; by giving an account of the intertwining of nationalism, politics, and religion that underlies major works, he restores Brahms to his place in nineteenth-century German culture. Focusing on the composer's choral works, the author offers new insight on the cultural grounding for Brahms's music.Music historians have been reluctant to address Brahms's Germanness, wary perhaps of fascist implications.
The final chapter looks at Brahms's The author explores Brahms's interest in the folk element in old church music; the intense national pride expressed in works such as the Triumphlied; the ways Luther's Bible and Lutheranism are reflected in Brahms's music; and the composer's ideas about nation building.