Combining the Arts in Schubert's Time
During Schubert's lifetime, cultural events in Vienna were rarely one-dimensional. Rather, they combined different forms of expression to create complex aesthetic experiences: instrumental music was combined with operatic excerpts, poetry recitations, scenic performances, or tableaux vivants—whether in concert halls or in private salons. This volume, based primarily on contributions from the conference “Combining the Arts. Multimedia Performances in the early 19th-Century Habsburg Empire”...
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