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COMPOSER AND CRITIC Two hundred years of music criticism
BY MAX gbaF Composer and Critic is the most humane and en¬ lightened, as well as comprehensive, treatment of the subject this writer has yet encountered.”—Virgil Thomson, New York Herald Tribune Book Review
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Composer and TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF MUSICAL CRITICISM
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The Norton Library W • W • NORTON & COMPANY • INC • NEW YORK
Copyright 1946 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. First published in the Norton Library 1971
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published simultaneously in Canada by George J. McLeod Limited, Toronto
. Norton & Company, Inc. is the publisher of current or forthcoming books on music by Putnam Aldrich, William Austin, Anthony Baines, Philip Bate, Sol Berkowitz, Friedrich Blume, How¬ ard Boatwright, Nadia Boulanger, Paul Brainerd, Nathan Broder, Manfred Bukofzer, John Castellini, John Clough, Doda Conrad, Aaron Copland, Hans David, Paul Des Marais, Otto Erich Deutsch, Frederick Dorian, Alfred Einstein, Gabriel Fontrier, Harold Gleason, Richard Franko Goldman, Noah Greenberg, Donald Jay Grout, James Haar, F. L. Harrison, Daniel Heartz, Richard Hoppin, John Horton, Edgar Hunt, A. J. B. Hutchings, Charles Ives, Roger Kamien, Hermann Keller, Leo Kraft, Stanley Krebs, Paul Henry Lang, Lyndesay G. Langwill, Jens Peter Larsen, Jan LaRue, Maurice Lieberman, Irving Lowens, Joseph Machlis, Carol McClintock, Alfred Mann, W. T. Marrocco, Arthur Mendel, William J. Mitchell, Douglas Moore, Joel Newman, John F. Ohl, Carl Parrish, Vincent Persichetti, Marc Pincherle, Walter Piston, Gustave Reese, Alexander Ringer, Curt Sachs, Denis Stevens, Robert Stevenson, Oliver Strunk, Francis Toye, Bruno Walter, J. T. Westrup, Emanuel Winternitz, Walter Wiora, and Percy Young. SBN 393 00497 X
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
9
FOREWORD
II
THE AUTHOR PRESENTS HIS CREDENTIALS
15
I.
VIENNA AROUND
ENCE
III.
I9OO
GENERAL
II.
BRUCKNEr’s PERSONAL INFLU¬
POSITION
OF
THE
MUSIC
CRITIC
Chapter One THE AGE OF REASON
30
Chapter Two THE NEW ESTHETICS
34
I.
DESCARTES
MAN
II.
ESTHETIC THEORY; BOILEAU
III. THE GER¬
ESTHETICIANS
Chapter Three THE FIRST MAGAZINES I.
ENGLAND
II.
GERMANY
AND
40
SWITZERLAND
Chapter Four THE FIRST MUSIC CRITICS
46
HAMBURG I.
GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC
CRITIC
II.
JOHANN
MATTHESON
PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681-I767)
(1681-I764)
III.
GEORG
IV. JOHANN ADOLF SCHEIBE
(1708-1776)
BERLIN I.
THE
III.
BERLIN
OF
THE
AGE
OF
REASON
II.
THE
THEORISTS
FRIEDRICH WILHELM MARPURG (1718-I795)
LEIPZIG I.
LEIPZIG:
THE
CITY
AND
THE
CHRISTOPH MIZLER (17II-I778) (17x8-1804)
IV.
UNIVERSITY III.
II.
LORENZ
JOHANN ADAM HILLER
MUSICAL CRITICISM IN THE GENERAL MAGA¬
ZINES
5
6
Contents
THE FIRST CONFLICT BETWEEN CRITIC AND COMPOSER
69
THE BATTLES AGAINST THE BAROQUE; THE MUSIC CRITICS IN THE FIGHT
86
Chaper Five
Chaper Six
I.
BAROQUE AND THE AGE OF REASON
OPERA
IN
PARODY
FRANCE V.
III.
FRENCH
II.
CRITICS
ITALIAN BAROQUE IV.
THE
SPIRIT
OF
THE BERLIN SCHOOL, A PRELUDE TO THE CLASSIC
ERA
Chaper Seven
MUSICAL CRITICISM AND THE CLASSICS: THE ATTITUDE OF THE COMPOSERS
Chaper Eight
HAYDN AND THE CRITICS MOZART IN MUSICAL CRITICISM
Chapter Nine Chapter Ten I.
12.0 i
BEETHOVEN AND THE CRITICS
Beethoven’s
first
years
in
Vienna
action TO BEETHOVEN S EARLY WORKS
III.
i
ii.
critical
re¬
CRITICISMS AFTER
1800 Chapter Eleven
I.
THE
II.
MUSICAL MAGAZINES IN THE AGE OF THE CLASSICS 1
NEW
LITERARY
STYLE
REICHARDT AND HIS MUSICAL WRITINGS
MAN AND AUSTRIAN MUSICAL CAL
EXEMPLIFIED
MAGAZINES
BOURGEOIS
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
IN
MUSICAL
FRANCE
PERIODICALS AND
IN
III. IV.
ENGLAND
GERMANY
OTHER EARLY
V.
THE
GER¬ MUSI¬ NEW
SOCIETY
THE FIRST MUSIC CRITICS IN DAILIES AND WEEKLIES I THE DEVELOPMENT OF ^MANTICISM IN GERMANY 1
Contents THE NEW BEETHOVEN CRITICISM
Chapter Fourteen I.
E.
T.
MARX V.
A.
(I776-I8^^)
HOFFMANN
III. J.
F.
REICHARDT
II. IV.
BETTINA BRENTANO (1785-1859)
NER AS CRITICS FEUILLETON
III. IV.
VII.
ROBERT
LISZT I
HECTOR
SCHUMANN
RICHARD WAGNER
2.06 II.
PERFORMER
BERLIOZ
AND
IV.
THE
CRITICS
CRITIC.
VI.
THE
FETIS YOUNG
(1803-1869}
(^1810-1856}
III.
III.
OTHER
END V.
Chapter Eighteen
II.
CARL
MARIA
VON
THE UNDERWORLD
THE CRITICS AND WAGNER
1904)
HEINE AND WAG¬
THE FIGHT AGAINST WAGNER. ED¬ UARD HANSLICK. THE BIRTH OF MOD-. ERN MUSICAL CRITICISM IN EUROPE x4x
Chapter Seventeen
IV.
RELLSTAB
MUSICAL CRITICISM IN THE DAILIES: THE
WEBER (1786-18x6)
I.
LUDWIG
ROBERT SCHUMANN AND CARL MARIA VON WEBER AS MUSIC CRITICS. THE UNDERWORLD 12.5
Chapter Sixteen
I.
BERNHARD
MUSICAL CRITICISM IN THE MAGAZINES
ROMANTICS
I.
ADOLF
VI.
THE NEW SOCIETY AND ITS MUSICIANS
V.
i88
PARIS, 1830
Chapter Fifteen I.
1
OF
II.
OPPONENTS
ROMANTICISM.
EDUARD HANSLICK (18x5—
AND
DEFENDERS
ISOLATION
THE RISE OF THE DAILIES.
OF
OF WAGNER ARTISTS
THE MUSIC MARKET
MODERN MUSICAL CRITICISM
GERMANY ENGLAND
II. V.
AUSTRIA RUSSIA
AND VI.
AND
BOHEMIA
X64 III.
FRANCE
THE UNITED STATES
EPILOGUE: THE FUTURE OF MUSICAL CRITICISM
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