{"title":"Walter Frisch","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalter Frisch offers insightful explorations into the rich landscape of 20th-century arts and culture, with a particular emphasis on German modernism. His works delve into the interplay between historical context and artistic innovation, illuminating the complexities of cultural movements and their lasting impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful, well-researched studies that balance rigorous scholarship with accessible prose. Frisch’s writing invites a deeper appreciation of the cultural forces shaping modern art, music, and literature, making his books essential for anyone interested in arts and cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"german-modernism-by-walter-frisch-9780520251489","title":"German Modernism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870s through World War I were transitional between late romanticism and high modernism. Drawing on a wide range of examples across different media, he establishes a cultural and intellectual context for late Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as their less familiar contemporaries Eugen d'Albert, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Max von Schillings, and Franz Schreker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrisch explores \"ambivalent\" modernism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as reflected in the attitudes of, and relationship between, Nietzsche and Wagner. He goes on to examine how naturalism, the first self-conscious movement of German modernism, intersected with musical values and practices of the day. He proposes convergences between music and the visual arts in the works of Brahms, Max Klinger, Schoenberg, and Kandinsky. Frisch also explains how, near the turn of the century, composers drew inspiration and techniques from music of the past—the Renaissance, Bach, Mozart, and Wagner. Finally, he demonstrates how irony became a key strategy in the novels and novellas of Thomas Mann, the symphonies of Mahler, and the operas of Strauss and Hofmannsthal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470742700268,"sku":"9780520251489","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520251489-german-modernism.jpg?v=1775224715"},{"product_id":"music-in-the-nineteenth-century-by-walter-frisch-9780393929195","title":"Music in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-century music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMusic in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e examines the period from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the advent of Modernism in the 1890s. Frisch traces a complex web of relationships involving composers, performers, publishers, notated scores, oral traditions, audiences, institutions, cities, and nations. The book's central themes include middle-class involvement in music, the rich but elusive concept of Romanticism, the cult of virtuosity, and the ever-changing balance between musical and commercial interests. The final chapter considers the sound world of nineteenth-century music as captured by contemporary witnesses and early recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWestern Music in Context: A Norton History\u003c\/i\u003e comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognised expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense—as sounds notated, performed, and heard—focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471262171372,"sku":"9780393929195","price":85.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780393929195-music-in-the-nineteenth-century.jpg?v=1775236387"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/walter-frisch.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}