Description
First Published in 1988. This is Volume 5 of seven in the Musicology: A Book Series. Witnesses and Scholars, is a collection studies in musical biography. The series covers a creative range of musical topics, from historical and theoretical subjects to social and philosophical studies. Volumes thus far published show the extent of this broad spectrum. disciplinary studies, ethnomusicological works, and performance analyses. With this series, it is the aim to expand the field and definition of musical exploration and research.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Series
Acknowledgments
Biography and History
Collecting Musical Biographies in the Eighteenth Century
Giorgio Vasari and Musical Biography
Toward a Composite Portrait of the
Eighteenth-Century Musician
Collective Biography and National Pride
Witnesses, Scholars and Would-Be Scholars:
Musical Biography at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
The Composer as Romantic Hero
Around Wasielewski and his Schumann Biography
The Memoirs of Eduard Hanslick
Does Documentary Biography Have a Future?
Autobiography, Creativity and Musical Meaning
Bibliography
Index
