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Title

Music and the figurative arts in the nineteenth century / edited by Roberto Illiano.

Publication

• Turnhout : Brepols, MMXX [2020]
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Illiano, Roberto
• Schmunk, Peter L.
• Garratt, James, 1974-

Description

xiv, 527 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), music; 27 cm.

Summary

This book explores the relationship between music and the figurative arts in the XIX century. In 1795 Friedrich Schiller wrote: ±Die bildende Kunst in ihrer höchsten Vollendung muss Musik werden und uns durch unmittelbare sinnliche Gegenwart rühren? (Schiller, Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen, Letter XXII, 1795). This sentence underlines the fundamental aesthetic change that coincided at the onset of the nineteenth century. According to ±ut musica pictura?, music becomes the model for an art able to express and communicate feelings. Even as music no longer necessarily has to embody order, so does painting move away from pure imitation to encompass emotional affect. Music and painting thus converge in embodying a sensual conception of the arts: music is capable of expressing emotions and arousing them in the audience; painting can do the same through visual perception. The present volume, which brings together 21 essays, focuses on encounters between composers and painters, but also on the relationship between music, literature and the figurative arts, as well as on the concurrence of musical and artistic aesthetics. Sections of the book are devoted to iconography, to the relationship with the theatrical arts (in particular the scenic aspect) and in one instance, to Franz Liszt. ROBERTO ILLIANO is General Secretary of the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca) and President of the Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi's Complete Works. He is also a member of the scholarly committee of the Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini's Complete Works. A founder of the journal ±Ad Parnassum?, he has published a variety of writings on 19th- and 20th-century music, in particular on Luigi Dallapiccola and Italian music under Italian fascism.

Series Statement

Speculum musicae ; volume XXXIX

Uniform Title

Speculum musicae ; v. 39.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Art and music > Congresses
• Music > 19th century > History and criticism > Congresses
• Figurative art > 19th century > Congresses
• Art and music
• Arts, Modern
• Music
• Figurative art

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Contributions in English, French or Italian; includes abstracts in English.

Contents

Preface / Roberto Illiano -- The concurrence of musical and artistic aesthetics. Idea(l)s of music in the art of Van Gogh and his contemporaries / Peter L. Schmunk ; Beyond beauty : the aesthetics of ugliness in German musical and artistic debates of the mid-19th century / James Garratt ; Berlioz e Delacroix : il faustismo romantico tra musica e arti figurative / Mara Lacchè -- Music, art and representation. Beethoven as a nineteenth-century pivotal figure in the Italian visual arts / Benedetta Saglietti ; Images des cirques parisiens comme lieu de concerts dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle : exprimer le gigantisme, la prolifération et le vertige par la miniaturisation dans la presse illustrée et la stylisation dans la peinture d'avant-garde / Florence Gétreau ; Like water : l'immagine di Fryderyk Chopin nella natura / Tiziana Palandrani -- Scenography and theatrical art. Da Hayez a Verdi. Musica e arti figurative nella scenografia italiana della prima metà dell'Ottocento : il caso dei Due Foscari / Olga Jesurum ; I costumi di Charles Bianchini per il Tannhäuser di Wagner (Parigi, 1895) / Biancamaria Brumana ; Puccini e la poetica degli stati d'animo : la svolta 'futurista' del Trittico / Daniela Tortora -- Encounters between composers and painters. Pierre Narcisse de Guérin inspirateur du 'Quintette' des Troyens / Alban Ramaut ; Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy e Wilhelm Hensel. Una ricerca del Gesamtkunstwerk / Paola Maurizi ; Imagery of Italy set to music : Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel's Reise-Album 1839-1840 / Mariacarla De Giorgi ; Tableaux d'une Exposition de Modeste Moussorgski : les paramètres universels de la sonorité des voix d'images pittoresques de Victor Hartmann / Valeriya Zharkova -- Liszt and the figurative arts. À la Chapelle Sixtine : on the cultural context of Liszt's synesthetic experience / Imre Kovács ; L'approccio di Liszt alle arti figurative / Maria Teresa Arfini ; Le triomphe de la mort : il Totentanz di Liszt come espressione dell'unità delle arti / Mariateresa Storino ; Translating words into music : elements of pictorialness in the song transcriptions of Franz Liszt / Małgorzata Grajter -- Music, literature and the figurative arts. Disiecta membra, To die of poetry : Moreau, Baudelaire and the Head of Orpheus / Cristina Santarelli ; La rencontre entre la musique et les arts plastiques dans les revues à la fin du XIXe siècle en Espagne / Ma Isabel Cabrera Garciá ; Aboringinals and Gauchos : the ties between music, literature and figurative arts in the 19th-century Uruguay / Marita Fornaro Bordolli ; Musical echos, feelings and emotions : total artwork ideals in late 19th-century paintings and writings by Santiago Rusiñol (1861-1931) / Jordi Ballester -- Appendix -- Abstracts and biographies -- Index of names.

Call Number

JMF 22-386

ISBN

• 2503589510
• 9782503589510

OCLC

1196191811

Title

Music and the figurative arts in the nineteenth century / edited by Roberto Illiano.

Publisher

Turnhout : Brepols, MMXX [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Speculum musicae ; volume XXXIX

Speculum musicae ; v. 39.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Contributions in English, French or Italian; includes abstracts in English.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Illiano, Roberto, editor.

Schmunk, Peter L., contributor.

Garratt, James, 1974- contributor.

Research Call Number

JMF 22-386