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The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim
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Valerie Woodring Goertzen
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Styra Avins
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2021
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Examines Joseph Joachim's vital legacy through a range of philological, philosophical and critical approaches.
Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), violinist, composer, teacher, and founding director of Berlin's Royal Academy of Music, was one of the most eminent and influential musicians of the long nineteenth century. Born in a tiny Jewish community on the Austro-Hungarian border, he rose to a position of unsurpassed prominence in European cultural life.
This timely collection of essays explores important yet little-known aspects of Joachim's life and art. Studies of his Jewish background, early assimilation into Christian society, Felix Mendelssohn's mentorship, and the influence of Hungarian vernacular music on the formation of his musical style elucidate the roots of Joachim's identity. The later chapters focus on his personal and creative responses to the contentious and rapidly evolving cultural milieu in which he lived: his choice of instruments as his musical "voice," his performances as sites of (re)enchantment in the modern age, his pathbreaking British career, his calling and sway as a quartet player, his pedagogical legacy, his influence on the establishment of the musical canon, and several of his most distinctive and original compositions.
With a wide variety of approaches-analytical, philological, archival, philosophical, and critical-this collection will prove enlightening to scholars, performers, and others interested in this brilliant artist and the musical aesthetics, culture, and styles of his time.
Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), violinist, composer, teacher, and founding director of Berlin's Royal Academy of Music, was one of the most eminent and influential musicians of the long nineteenth century. Born in a tiny Jewish community on the Austro-Hungarian border, he rose to a position of unsurpassed prominence in European cultural life.
This timely collection of essays explores important yet little-known aspects of Joachim's life and art. Studies of his Jewish background, early assimilation into Christian society, Felix Mendelssohn's mentorship, and the influence of Hungarian vernacular music on the formation of his musical style elucidate the roots of Joachim's identity. The later chapters focus on his personal and creative responses to the contentious and rapidly evolving cultural milieu in which he lived: his choice of instruments as his musical "voice," his performances as sites of (re)enchantment in the modern age, his pathbreaking British career, his calling and sway as a quartet player, his pedagogical legacy, his influence on the establishment of the musical canon, and several of his most distinctive and original compositions.
With a wide variety of approaches-analytical, philological, archival, philosophical, and critical-this collection will prove enlightening to scholars, performers, and others interested in this brilliant artist and the musical aesthetics, culture, and styles of his time.
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Contributor: Valerie Woodring Goertzen
VALERIE WOODRING GOERTZEN is Professor of Music History, Loyola University New Orleans.
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Contributor: Robert Whitehouse Eshbach
ROBERT W. ESHBACH is Associate Professor of Music, University of New Hampshire.
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Contributor: Robert Whitehouse Eshbach
ROBERT W. ESHBACH is Associate Professor of Music, University of New Hampshire.
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Contributor: Valerie Woodring Goertzen
VALERIE WOODRING GOERTZEN is Professor of Music History, Loyola University New Orleans.
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Contributor: Ian Maxwell
IAN MAXWELL is an Honorary Research Fellow, Music Department, University of Sheffield.
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Contributor: R. Larry Todd
R. LARRY TODD is Arts & Sciences Professor at Duke University
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Contributor: Katharina Uhde
KATHARINA UHDE is Associate Professor of Violin and Musicology, Valparaiso University; and Akademische Oberrätin, LMU Munich
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Joachim's influence is still seen today in quartets with permanent members, performances of the late Beethoven quartets, complete Beethoven quartet cycles ... To learn more of this remarkable man, buy the book!
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A responsible, far-reaching, provocative series of essays. Essential.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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List of Music Examples
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Introduction: The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim
1 - PART 1 Identity
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1 “Of the Highest Good”: Joachim’s Relationship to Mendelssohn
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2 Joseph Joachim and His Jewish Dilemma
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3 Joachim and Romani Musicians: Their Relationship and Common Features in Performance Practice
52 - PART 2 Joachim as Performer
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4 Joachim’s Violins: Spotlights on Some of Them
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5 (Re-)Enchanting Performance: Joachim and the Spirit of Beethoven
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6 “Thou That Hast Been in England Many a Year”: The British Joachim
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7 Joachim at the Crystal Palace
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8 “Music Was Poured by Perfect Ministrants”: Joseph Joachim at the Monday Popular Concerts, London
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9 “Das Quartett-Spiel ist doch wohl mein eigentliches Fach”: Joseph Joachim and the String Quartet
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10 Professor Joachim and His Pupils
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11 Performers as Authors of Music History: Joseph and Amalie Joachim
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12 At the Intersection of Performance and Composition: Joseph Joachim and the Third Movement of Brahms’s Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26
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13 Reconsidering the Young Composer-Performer Joseph Joachim, 1841–53
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14 “Franz Liszt gewidmet”: Joseph Joachim’s G-Minor Violin Concerto, Op. 3
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15 Drama and Music in Joachim’s Overture to Shakespeare’s Henry IV
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16 “So Gleams the Past, the Light of Other Days”: Joachim’s Hebräische Melodien for Viola and Piano, Op. 9 (1854)
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17 Tovey’s View of Joachim’s Hungarian Violin Concerto
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Index
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February 19, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781800103894
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Boydell Press
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Keywords for this book
Joseph Joachim; violinist; composer; Royal Academy of Music; musician; Austro-Hungarian border; cultural life; musical legacy; music history; Hungarian music; musical influences; artistic identity; musical aesthetics; music culture; musical styles; musical compositions
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
