A Serious Matter and True Joy Philanthropy, the Arts, and the State in Leipzig (1750-1918).
This book offers a novel approach to the history of high culture and new perspectives on the history of civil society in provincial Germany. It makes the concept of place a central means for understanding how art culture was defined, consumed, and, importantly, distributed over the course of the lon...
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1: Cultural Philanthropy on Stage
- Part 2: Cultural Philanthropy for Show
- Part 3: Cultural Philanthropy Unresolved
- Part 1 Cultural Philanthropy on Stage
- Introduction to Part 1
- Chapter 1 Theater in the Second City
- 1 Theatrical and Operatic Leipzig before 1766
- 2 Building on the Edge: The Theater on the Rannstadt Bastion
- 3 Local Control: The Komödienhaus Becomes the Stadttheater
- Chapter 2 Pride and Scandal: Creating a Municipal Theater
- 1 Transitions and Revolutions
- 2 Money Talks: Financing and Building the Neues Theater
- 3 Fighting Out in the Open: Scandal and Ruin
- 4 Access Means Control: Intragovernmental Conflict
- Part 2 Cultural Philanthropy for Show: Museums
- Introduction to Part 2
- Chapter 3 Kunstkammer
- Kunstverein
- Kunstsmuseum: The City Art Museum
- 1 Keeping Up with the Augustiner: Leipzig vs. Dresden and the Formation of the Leipziger Kunstverein
- 2 The Business of Fancy: The Kunstverein and Leipzig's Economic Elites
- 3 Framing the Art: Building a Museum
- Chapter 4 Art, Commerce, and a Global Presence: The Grassi Museum
- 1 "Leipzig kommt!" Becoming a Großstadt
- 2 Windfall: The Grassi Bequest
- 3 Aesthetics and Commerce: The Applied Arts Museum
- 4 The Museum für Völkerkunde: Consuming the World
- 5 Municipal Museums and Leipzig's Self-Representation as an 'Art City'
- Part 3 Cultural Philanthropy Unresolved: Musikstadt Leipzig
- Introduction to Part 3
- Chapter 5 Ensemble Players: The Großes Concert and Musical Life in Leipzig before 1850
- 1 The Großes Concert and the Origins of the Gewandhaus Orchestra
- 2 Becoming the Orchestra in the Gewandhaus
- 3 Musical Networks
- 4 Rise to Fame: The Gewandhaus to Mid-Century
- Chapter 6 Excellence and Exclusivity: A New Concert Hall and Local Challenges
- 1 Disharmony and Its Discontents
- 2 Money and Land: The Campaign for a New Concert Hall, 1860-1884
- 3 Exclusivity Challenged: Big-City Politics, Rival Associations, and the Debate about a Second City Orchestra, 1890 to the End of World War One
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index