TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirt,Katherine
TI  - When Machines Play Chopin: Musical Spirit and Automation in Nineteenth-Century German Literature 
T2  - Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ,
SN  - 9783110232394
AV  - PT345 .H55 2010eb
U1  - 830.9/3578 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - German literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Music and literature
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - Music in literature
KW  - Musical instruments in literature
KW  - Mechanisches Musikinstrument
KW  - Musik/i.d. Literatur
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mechanical Musical Instrument
KW  - Music/in Literature
N1  - Dissertation; Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Chapter One Towards Autonomy: Imitation and Expression at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century --; Chapter Two E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Aesthetics of Music and Musical Machines in “The Automata,” “The Sandman” and Music Reviews --; Chapter Three Schopenhauer and Hanslick: Toward a Definition of Instrumental Music as an Autonomous Art --; Chapter Four Virtuosity and the Experience of Listening in Heinrich Heine’s Music Criticism and “Florentine Nights” --; Chapter Five Rilke’s Phonograph: the “Talking Machine” and Imagined Sound --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - When Machines Play Chopin brings together music aesthetics, performance practices, and the history of automated musical instruments in nineteenth-century German literature. Philosophers defined music as a direct expression of human emotion while soloists competed with one another to display machine-like technical perfection at their instruments. When Machines Play Chopin looks at this paradox between thinking about and practicing music to show what three literary works say about automation and the sublime in art
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110232400
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110232400
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110232400/original
ER  -