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Auteur(s) : Bunzel, Anja
Titre(s) : The songs of Johanna Kinkel [Texte imprimé] : genesis, reception, context / Anja Bunzel
Publication : Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : the Boydell Press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-291 pages) : illustrations, music, facsimiles (black and white) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-282) and index
"Johanna Kinkel (1810-1858) was a German composer, music pedagogue, pianist, poet,
writer, and activist. This is the first study to offer an exhaustive examination of
Kinkel's published songs through the lens of her extraordinary biography and reception.
Throughout her life, Kinkel was strongly invested in traditional family and household
duties. First married to a Catholic book seller, she successfully filed for divorce
in 1840, converted to the Protestant faith, and, in 1843, married the poet, professor,
and revolutionary Gottfried Kinkel (1815-1882), with whom she had four children. Many
of her love songs reveal a sense of emotional hardship and longing for support and
recognition. Similar sentiments can also be traced in Kinkel's private letters. On
the other hand, she challenged typical gender conventions of the time in these private
correspondences, in her poetry, music, and writings, and through public socio-political
participation. Her political songs to words by herself, by Gottfried Kinkel, and by
some of their poet-friends draw on such themes as freedom and democracy and are anchored
in the German democratic movement during the first half of the century. Furthermore,
Kinkel treats in her songs such typical Romantic topoi as nature, loneliness, eternity,
and night thoughts. Her compositional aesthetics range from simple strophic settings
with straightforward harmony to more diverse harmonic progressions, rhythmic peculiarities,
and complex musical interpretations of poetic Romantic irony. This book provides insights
into the depth and width of Kinkel's song aesthetics and into her positioning within
and between such domains as musical professionalism and amateurism and 'masculine'
and 'feminine' musical styles. It argues that Kinkel's songs both reflect and transcend
aesthetic, cultural,and socio-political facets typically associated with female composers
of the first half of the nineteenth century, thus adding a new layer to our understanding
of both the composer Johanna Kinkel and nineteenth-century song more generally."--taken
from back cover
Sujet(s) : Kinkel, Johanna (1810-1858) -- Critique et interprétation
Compositrices -- Allemagne -- 19e siècle -- Critique et interprétation
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781783274109. - ISBN 1783274107. - ISBN 178744810X (erroné). - ISBN 9781787448100
(erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46681161q
Notice n° :
FRBNF46681161
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