Table of Contents

Political Culture and Schubert's Stadtpark Monument
1897: The Politics of a Schubert Year
Gustav Klimt's Schubert
Schubert and Jung-Wien: Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Schubert, Modernism, and the Fin-de-Siècle Science of Sexuality
Peter Altenberg's Schubert
Arnold Schoenberg's Schubert

About the Author

Scott Messing is Charles A. Dana Professor of Music at Alma College.

Reviews

Viewing fin de siècle Viennese culture through the lens of Schubert reception [in vol. 2] proves a highly rewarding exercise, and Messing's work deserves to attract the attention of scholars from a wide range of disciplines. . . . Engages with a striking breadth of texts and artefacts . . . from cartoons and kitschy postcards to Gustav Klimt's [painting] Schubert am Klavier and Schoenberg's strings quartets.
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This is cultural history at its best -- 'thick' history that uncovers the multiple, fascinating forces at work between the centennial celebrations of Schubert's birth and death. A dazzling work of reception history, Messing's book illuminates Schubert's role in the politics of gender, race, and cultural identity in fin-de-siècle Vienna. In so doing it provides the long-awaited musical counterpart to Carl Schorske's classic study Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture. --Glenn Watkins, Earl V. Moore Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, and author of Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great War
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A graceful, far-ranging, important study of fin-de-siècle perceptions of the Viennese composer as they affected national politics and cultural self-definition in the early twentieth century. The conceptual legacy of a feminine Schubert is scrutinized through the lens of political history, art, literature, music, and the inquisitive but choosy new science of sexuality. Proceeding with the contagious tempo of a fine mystery novel, this is 'reception history' at its broadest, yet most exacting, often surprising best. --Alessandra Comini, University Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita, Southern Methodist University
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