Celia Applegate: 2 books
The Necessity of Music
Variations on a German Theme
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German social...
Bach in Berlin
Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the "St. Matthew Passion"
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before...