Provincialism within limits? Nationalism and cultural transfer in Danish mid-19th century musical culture
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Provincialism within limits? Nationalism and cultural transfer in Danish mid-19th century musical culture. / Hesselager, Jens.
Musik im Spannungsfeld zwischen nationalem Denken und Weltbürgertum: Franz Liszt zum 200. Geburtstag. ed. / Dorothea Redepenning. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. p. 205-222 (Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Vol. 67).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Provincialism within limits?
T2 - Nationalism and cultural transfer in Danish mid-19th century musical culture
AU - Hesselager, Jens
PY - 2015/7/1
Y1 - 2015/7/1
N2 - This article argues that provincial culture in the 19th century, even while presenting itself as patriotic and nationalist, may sometimes contain elements in which a certain aspiration to overcome provincialism and introduce a cosmopolitan quality to local culture is detectable. The themes of cosmopolitanism and provincialism in relation to music is developed with reference to Franz Liszt, who in the context of this article comes to function as a sort of ‘cosmopolitan’ mirror image of the ‘provincial’ Danish composer, Henrik Rung (1807-1871). Rung’s work Slaget ved Fredericia (1850) – a piece of nationalist political propaganda, in effect – is analysed, and it is suggested that while it is certainly suffused with patriotic rhetoric (such as the occasion demanded), Rung nevertheless at the same time took the opportunity to incorporate a number of significant international musical influences, notably from Felicien David’s symphonic ode, Le désert, Meyerbeer’s Les huguenots and from the vocal music of the Italian renaissance. These influences are interpreted as indicative of an international outlook, differing quite markedly from that of his internationally renowned contemporary, Niels W. Gade, and on several points in closer accordance with Franz Liszt’s.
AB - This article argues that provincial culture in the 19th century, even while presenting itself as patriotic and nationalist, may sometimes contain elements in which a certain aspiration to overcome provincialism and introduce a cosmopolitan quality to local culture is detectable. The themes of cosmopolitanism and provincialism in relation to music is developed with reference to Franz Liszt, who in the context of this article comes to function as a sort of ‘cosmopolitan’ mirror image of the ‘provincial’ Danish composer, Henrik Rung (1807-1871). Rung’s work Slaget ved Fredericia (1850) – a piece of nationalist political propaganda, in effect – is analysed, and it is suggested that while it is certainly suffused with patriotic rhetoric (such as the occasion demanded), Rung nevertheless at the same time took the opportunity to incorporate a number of significant international musical influences, notably from Felicien David’s symphonic ode, Le désert, Meyerbeer’s Les huguenots and from the vocal music of the Italian renaissance. These influences are interpreted as indicative of an international outlook, differing quite markedly from that of his internationally renowned contemporary, Niels W. Gade, and on several points in closer accordance with Franz Liszt’s.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Cultural transfer
KW - Henrik Rung
KW - Franz Liszt
KW - Slaget ved Fredericia
KW - Felicien David
KW - Le desert
KW - Provincialism
KW - Cultural transfer
KW - Cosmopolitanism
KW - Provincialism
KW - Henrik Rung
KW - Franz Liszt
KW - Slaget ved Fredericia (musical work, by Henrik Rung)
KW - Le désert, ode symphonie (musical work, by F. David)
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-8253-6367-3
T3 - Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift
SP - 205
EP - 222
BT - Musik im Spannungsfeld zwischen nationalem Denken und Weltbürgertum
A2 - Redepenning, Dorothea
PB - Universitätsverlag Winter
ER -
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