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Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner

Conway, David; (2011) Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner. [Book]. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.

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Abstract

David Conway analyses why and how Jews, virtually absent from western art-music until the end of the eighteenth century, came to be represented in all branches of the profession within fifty years as leading figures – not only as composers and performers, but as publishers, impresarios and critics. His study places this process in the context of dynamic economic, political, sociological and technological changes,and also of developments in Jewish communities and the Jewish religion itself, in the major cultural centres of western Europe. Beginning with a review of attitudes to Jews in the arts, and an assessment of Jewish music and musical skills, in the age of the Enlightenment, Conway traces the story of growing Jewish involvement with music through the biographies of the famous, the neglected and the forgotten, leading to a new and radical contextualisation of Wagner’s infamous ‘Das Judentum in der Musik'.

Type: Book
Title: Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-01538-8
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139058483
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139058483
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10193765
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