UID:
almahu_9949534843402882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009276450 (ebook)
Inhalt:
The music of the Strauss family - Johann and his three sons, Johann, Josef and Eduard - enjoys enormous popular appeal. Yet existing biographies have failed to do justice to the family's true significance in nineteenth and early twentieth-century musical history. David Wyn Jones addresses this deficiency, engagingly showing that - from Johann's first engagements in the mid-1820s to the death of Eduard in 1916 - the music making of the family was at the centre of Habsburg Viennese society as it moved between dance hall, concert hall and theatre. The Strauss industry at its height was, he demonstrates, greater than any one of the individuals, with serious personal and domestic consequences including affairs, illness, rivalry and fraud. This zesty biography, spanning over a hundred years of history, brings the dynasty brilliantly to life across a large canvas as it offers fresh and revealing insights into the cultural life of Vienna as a whole.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jun 2023).
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1804-1832. Johann Strauss and the Making of a Tradition -- 1833-1849. Father and Son. Travel and Revolution -- 1850-1870. Three Brothers : Johann, Josef and Eduard -- Dance and March : Music and Culture -- 1871-1899. Two brothers : Johann and Eduard -- Staging Comedy : Operetta and Opera -- 1900-1916. One brother : Eduard -- A Disenchanted Brother and a Disinherited Son -- Memories, Monuments -- Eduard's Reminiscences -- The End of Two.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781009276474
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009276450
