Sara Levy's World

Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin
Herausgeber: Cypess, Rebecca; Sinkoff, Nancy

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Produktbeschreibung

Sara Levy née Itzig (1761-1854), a salonnière, skilled performing musician, and active participant in enlightened Prussian Jewish society, played a powerful role in shaping the dynamic cultural world of late eighteenth- and earlynineteenth-century Berlin. A patron and collector of music, she studied harpsichord with Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-84) and commissioned musical compositions from both Friedemann and his brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88). Archival evidence demonstrates Levy's position as an essential link in the transmission of the music of their father, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), and as a catalyst for the "Bach revival" of the early nineteenth century, which was led by her great-nephew Felix Mendelssohn. Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin represents the first scholarly exploration of the cultural, political, and aesthetic contexts that shaped Levy's world. Bringing together leading scholars from the fields of musicology, Jewish Studies, history, literary studies, gender studies, and philosophy, this volume presents cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research on the numerous mutually reinforcing aspects of Levy's life and work. Contributors: Rebecca Cypess, Marjanne E. Goozé, Barbara Hahn, Martha B. Helfer, Natalie Naimark-Goldberg, Elias Sacks, Yael Sela, Nancy Sinkoff, George B. Stauffer, Christoph Wolff, Steven Zohn Rebecca Cypess is Associate Professor of Music at Rutgers University. Nancy Sinkoff is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History and Director ofthe Center for European Studies at Rutgers University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781580469210
• ISBN-10: 1580469213
• Artikelnr.: 50120786

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Cypess, Nancy Sinkoff

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Experiencing Sara Levy's World Part One: Portrait of a Jewish
Female Artist: Music, Identity, Image What Was the Berlin Jewish Salon
Around 1800? Sara Levy's Musical Salon and Her Bach Collection Remaining
Within the Fold: The Cultural and Social World of Sara Levy Women's Voices
in Bach's Musical World: Christiane Mariane von Ziegler and Faustina
Bordoni Part Two: Music, Aesthetics, and Philosophy: Jews and Christians in
Sara Levy's World Lessing and the Limits of Enlightenment Poetry, Music,
and the Limits of Harmony: Mendelssohn's Aesthetic Critique of Christianity
Longing for the Sublime: Jewish Self-Consciousness and the St. Matthew
Passion in Biedermeier Berlin Part Three: Studies in Sara Levy's Collection
Duets in the Collection of Sara Levy and the Ideal of "Unity in
Multiplicity" The Sociability of Salon Culture and Carl Philipp Emanuel
Bach's Quartets Appendix: The Salonnière and the Diplomat: Letters from
Sara Levy to Karl Gustav von Brinckmann Bibliography List of Contributors
Index