Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.
Contents:
Opera in the 'fruitful age of musical translations' -- Kenner und Liebhaber : Meeting the domestic market -- Female agency in the early nineteenth-century Viennese musical salon -- Canon formation, domestication, and opera -- Rossini 'as the Viennese Liked it' -- Industry, agency, and opera arrangements in Czerny's Vienna.
Summary:
"The many and varied domestic musical arrangements of opera that circulated in Vienna provide a unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making. This study takes a novel stance for musicology, prioritising musical arrangements over original compositions, and female amateurs' perspectives over those of composers"--Provided by publisher.
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