{"product_id":"music-and-desire-among-the-austro-german-romantics-beethoven-schubert-wagner-brahms-and-the-schumanns-9781648251108","title":"Music and Desire Among the Austro-German Romantics: Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Brahms, and the Schumanns","description":"\u003cb\u003eInvestigates the composition and reception of works by key Romantics such as Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Wagner and the Schumanns with attention to the role of sexual desire in the composers' lives and music.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScholars have for several decades been devoting increasing attention to aspects of sexuality and desire in the music of the Austro-German Romantics. Undertaking a close analysis of the sources, the four chapters of this book show how our assumptions about what those composers desired are often in fact contingent on what we, their commentators, have wanted them to desire over the course of reception history. Beethoven's \u003ci\u003eFidelio \u003c\/i\u003eand Schubert's \u003ci\u003eWinterreise\u003c\/i\u003e tend to be regarded as a hymn to freedom, on the one hand, and an interior monologue of an alienated lover, on the other, though in neither case does such a view correspond to what the composer intended. In contrast, Richard Wagner dismissed his own opera \u003ci\u003eThe Ban on Love\u003c\/i\u003e as a youthful indiscretion extolling the \"free love\" of the Young German movement; but he was reinterpreting an early work to align it with his later aesthetic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe final chapter examines the chronology of the friendship of Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms in order to discern the likely truths about their triangular relationship before and after Robert Schumann's incarceration in a mental asylum. By adhering to the sources and placing them in the social, linguistic, and geographical contexts of their time, author Chris Walton grants all these protagonists a greater agency of desire than has hitherto been the case.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalton, Chris:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - CHRIS WALTON teaches music history at the Basel Academy of Music in Switzerland, is an Honorary Professor at Africa Open Institute (Stellenbosch University in South Africa) and runs a research project at the Bern Academy of the Arts for the Swiss National Science Foundation.","brand":"University of Rochester Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359273484562,"sku":"9781648251108","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77a91c6f-2786-4b7e-9424-979cdc48c080.jpg?v=1749586978","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/music-and-desire-among-the-austro-german-romantics-beethoven-schubert-wagner-brahms-and-the-schumanns-9781648251108","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}