Author: Pieper, Antje

Source: Cultural and Social History, Volume 5, Number 1, March 2008 , pp. 53-73(21)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

Abstract:

This article concerns the making of bourgeois cultural identity by way of analysing and comparing the ethos and organization of Leipzig's Gewandhaus and Birmingham's Triennial Festival during the nineteenth century. Whilst the origins of Leipzig's music culture are placed firmly within the emergent tradition of Kantian and Romantic idealism and the eighteenth-century revival of classicism which informed the cultural and educational ethos of the German Bürgertum, the beginnings of Birmingham's music culture are placed within the context of British empiricism. Both are then substantiated through an empirical analysis of concert repertoires, journals, newspapers and attitudes towards conductors and artists.

Keywords: MIDDLE CLASS; BÜRGERTUM; MUSIC; CONCERT CULTURE; GEWANDHAUS; TRIENNIAL FESTIVAL

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/147800408X267256

Affiliations: 1: University of Birmingham;, Email: antje.pieper@btopenworld.com

Publication date: 2008-03-01

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