When machines play Chopin
Subtitle: musical spirit and automation in nineteenth-century German literature
By: by Katherine Hirt
Series: Interdisciplinary German cultural studies -- 8
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110232394
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Towards autonomy: imitation and expression at the turn of the nineteenth century; title: E.T.A. Hoffmann's aesthetics of music and musical machines in the Automata, the Sandman and music reviews; title: Schopenhauer and Hanslick: toward a definition of instrumental music as an autonomous art; title: Virtuosity and the experience of listening in Heinrich Heine's music criticism and Florentine nights; title: Rilke's phonograph: the talking machine and imagined sound.