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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459244603321

Autore

Hirt Katherine Maree

Titolo

When machines play Chopin [[electronic resource] ] : musical spirit and automation in nineteenth-century German literature / / Katherine Hirt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010

ISBN

1-282-67331-9

9786612673313

3-11-023240-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; ; 8

Disciplina

830.9/3578

Soggetti

German literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Musical instruments in literature

Music in literature

Music and literature - Germany - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Chapter One Towards Autonomy: Imitation and Expression at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter Two E.T.A. Hoffmann's Aesthetics of Music and Musical Machines in "The Automata," "The Sandman" and Music Reviews -- Chapter Three Schopenhauer and Hanslick: Toward a Definition of Instrumental Music as an Autonomous Art -- Chapter Four Virtuosity and the Experience of Listening in Heinrich Heine's Music Criticism and "Florentine Nights" -- Chapter Five Rilke's Phonograph: the "Talking Machine" and Imagined Sound -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

When Machines Play Chopin brings together music aesthetics, performance practices, and the history of automated musical instruments in nineteenth-century German literature. Philosophers defined music as a direct expression of human emotion while soloists competed with one another to display machine-like technical perfection at their instruments. When Machines Play Chopin looks at this paradox between thinking about and practicing music to show what three literary works say about automation and the sublime in art.