Barbara Titus Recognizing music as an art form

Friedrich Th. Vischer and German music criticism, 1848-1887

The impact of Hegelian philosophy on 19th-century music criticism. Music's status as an art form was distrusted in the context of German idealist philosophy which exerted an unparalleled influence on the entire nineteenth century. Hegel insisted that the content of a work of art should be grasped in concepts in order to establish its spiritual substantiality (Geistigkeit), and that no object, word or image could accurately represent the content and meaning of a musical work. In the mid-nineteenth...

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Engels | 270 pagina's (PDF, 3,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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