Bruckner
Subtitle: Symphony No. 8 (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780521635370
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Orchestras; Music; C minor; Music/Songbooks; no. 8,; Symphonies,; Genres & Styles - Classical; History & Criticism - General; Bruckner, Anton,--1824-1896.--Symphonies,--no. 8,--C minor; Music / General; Bruckner, Anton,; Musical Instruments - General; 1824-1896; 1824-1896.
First sentence: In late nineteenth-century Vienna the symphony was fraught with cultural significance; it was widely seen as the musical genre, if not the art form, that most directly could, as Paul Bekker later put it, build a "community of feeling," a process of acute significance in the Habsburg Empire at a time when the old imperial system was increasingly strained by ethnic, nationalist, and democratic impulses.