When Machines Play Chopin - Musical Spirit and Automation in Nineteenth-Century German Literature

When Machines Play Chopin - Musical Spirit and Automation in Nineteenth-Century German Literature

von: Katherine Hirt

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG, 2010

ISBN: 9783110232400 , 170 Seiten

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When Machines Play Chopin - Musical Spirit and Automation in Nineteenth-Century German Literature


 

Acknowledgements

6

Table of Contents

8

Chapter One Towards Autonomy: Imitation and Expression at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

10

Chapter Two E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Aesthetics of Music and Musical Machines in “The Automata,” “The Sandman” and Music Reviews

42

Chapter Three Schopenhauer and Hanslick: Toward a Definition of Instrumental Music as an Autonomous Art

74

Chapter Four Virtuosity and the Experience of Listening in Heinrich Heine’s Music Criticism and “Florentine Nights”

101

Chapter Five Rilke’s Phonograph: the “Talking Machine” and Imagined Sound

131

Conclusions

158

Bibliography

163

Index

177