Setting the Scene
Setting the Scene
Grandiose Symphonics and the Trouble with Art
Negotiating Taruskin's concept of maximalism, this chapter explains the character of the period covered and establishes the subject as that of art and its audience in the age of modernism. The book's argument is contextualized with reference to the theories in Richard Leppert's The Sight of Sound and John Carey's The Intellectuals and the Masses. There is also an attempt to explore the nuances of an understanding of romanticism through discussion of a key text by Wackenroder. This facilitates a better sense of what might be “late” romantic about Mahler's Second Symphony, a critical discussion of which, linked to the author's experience of hearing it for the first time, occupies the closing section of the chapter.
Keywords: Taruskin, maximalism, Richard Leppert, John Carey, romanticism, Wackenroder, Mahler's Second Symphony
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