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Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-century Vienna

by Janet K. Page (university Of Memphis)

  • Hardback
  • 318 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 17.8 x 24.9 x 2.1 cm

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For music lovers and history enthusiasts alike

Explains the decline of convent music's influence

You will gain insights into Vienna's cultural heritage

Discover the rich interplay of music and politics in 18th-century Vienna.
Janet Page explores the interaction of music and piety, court and church, as seen through the relationship between the Habsburg court and Vienna's convents. For a period of some twenty-five years, encompassing the end of the reign of Emperor Leopold I and that of his elder son, Joseph I, the court's emphasis on piety and music meshed perfectly with the musical practices of Viennese convents. This mutually beneficial association disintegrated during the eighteenth century, and the changing relationship of court and convents reveals something of the complex connections among the Habsburg court, the Roman Catholic Church, and Viennese society. Identifying and discussing many musical works performed in convents, including oratorios, plays with music, feste teatrali, sepolcri, and other church music, Page reveals a golden age of convent music in Vienna and sheds light on the convents' surprising engagement with contemporary politics.
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  • Author

    Janet K. Page (university Of Memphis)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    April 2014

  • Weight

    784g

  • Page Count

    318

  • Dimensions

    17.8 x 24.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781107039087

  • ISBN-10

    1107039088

  • Eden Code

    4590747

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