Speaking German Musically: Poetic Recitation in Central Europ... - 9781837652143

Speaking German Musically: Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820Author(s): Jacqueline Waeber\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Boydell & Brewer\nISBN-13: 9781837652143, 978-1837652143\nSynopsis\nShows how poetic recitation and the interweaving of music and poetry contributed to the advent of a German identity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.\n\nThe art of reciting a text out loud, known as Vortragskunst, be it in a private circle or in a concert hall, originated in German-speaking countries in the 1760s, and by the nineteenth century had become a well-established practice subjected to an artistic blossoming unparalleled in the rest of Europe.\n\nIn this book Jacqueline Waeber explains and examines how and why this happened, focusing on the origins of poetic recitation and its development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a period essential to the development of modern German l.