Anderson Karl Straube (1873–1950)

Germany’s Master Organist in Turbulent Times
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-470-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 182, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

The first thorough examination of the most renowned and influential organist in early twentieth-century Germany and of his complex relationship to his country's tumultuous and shifting sociopolitical landscape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Vokalmusik, Chormusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Berlin 1873-1897
1. Headwaters
2. Mentors
3. Liftoff
Part II. Wesel 1897-1902
4. New beginnings
5. Reger
6. "I'd like finally to get on with it!"
Part III. Leipzig 1903-1918
7. A Berliner in (little) Paris
8. Off the organ bench
9. Trouble in paradise
10. "In my naïveté"
11. Emmi Leisner
12. Deaths and transfigurations
Part IV. Intermezzo: Leipzig 1918-1920
13. Decision point
14. Portraits in ambivalence
Part V. Leipzig 1920-1929
15. On the road and at the negotiating table
16. Politics I
17. "When the days of darkness come"
18. Colleagues
19. The treadmill
20. Movements in time
21. "God preserve Karl Straube"
Part VI. Leipzig 1930-1939
22. Bach on air
23. Politics II
24. Praeceptor Germaniae
25. The spring of our discontent
26. Beyond the Rhine
27. Deceptive cadence
28. Tempelreinigung
Part VII. Leipzig 1940-1950
29. The Franciscan way
30. Perils
31. Götterdämmerung 1943
32. Gone with the wind
33. Reckonings
34. "Like sand through the fingers"
Epilogue: Musical Offering
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anderson Christopher:
CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON is Associate Professor of Sacred Music, Perkins School of Theology and Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.