Muxfeldt, Kristina - Vanishing Sensibilities

Vanishing Sensibilities examines music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and their contemporaries in drama and poetry, showing how music was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the nature of liberty, consent in marriage, freedom of expression, and other matters of cultural and political urgency in this age of censorship.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Dedication
Notes to the Reader
Prologue: The Historian
1 Liberty in the Theater, or the Emancipation of Words
2 The Matrimonial Anomaly (Schubert's Opera for Posterity)
3 Frauenliebe und Leben Now and Then
4 Music Recollected in Tranquillity: Postures of Memory in Beethoven
5 A Curious Measure of Changing Beethoven Reception
6 Schubert, Platen, and the Myth of Narcissus
Appendix 6.1
Appendix 6.2
Works Cited
Index