- Hardcover: 356 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 16, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1107015383
- ISBN-13: 978-1107015388
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 'Judaism in Music'.
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