German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Bys: Loges, Natasha and Tunbridge, Laura

A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these days. While it might seem that this style of performance is a long-standing tradition, German Song Onstage demonstrates that it is not. For much of the 19th century, the songs of Beethoven,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253047005
• ISBN13: 9780253047007
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher