German Song Onstage

Natasha Loges is Head of Postgraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music. She is author of Brahms and His Poets: A Handbook. She is also editor (with Katy Hamilton) of Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall: Between Private and Public Performance and Brahms in Context, as well as editor (with Anja Bunzel) of Musical Salon Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century. Laura Tunbridge is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford. She is author of Schumann's Late Style, The Song Cycle, and Singing in the Age of Anxiety: Lieder Performances in New York and London between the World Wars and editor (with Roe-Min Kok) of Rethinking Schumann.

Acknowledgments


Introduction: Restaging German Song / Laura Tunbridge


1. "Eine wahre Olla Patrida [sic]:" Anna Milder-Hauptmann, Schubert, and Programming the Orient / Susan Youens


2. Song in Concert as Observed by the Schumanns: Toward the Personalization of the Public Stage / Benjamin Binder


3. From Miscellanies to Musical Works: Julius Stockhausen, Clara Schumann and Dichterliebe / Natasha Loges


4. Natalia Macfarren and the English German Lied / Katy Hamilton


5. "For Any Ordinary Performer It Would Be Absurd, Ridiculous or Offensive": Performing Lieder Cycles on the American Stage / Heather Platt


6. The Concert Hall as a Gender-Neutral Space: The Case of Amalie Joachim, née Schneeweiss / Beatrix Borchard, Translated by Jeremy Coleman


7. Nikolai Medtner: Championing the German Lied and Russian Spirit / Maria Razumovskaya


8. From the Benefit Concert to the Solo Song Recital in London, 1870–1914 / Simon McVeigh and William Weber


9. German Song and the Working Classes in Berlin, 1890–1914 / Wiebke Rademacher


10. Lilli Lehmann's Dedicated Lieder Recitals / Rosamund Cole


11. "Eine Reihe bunter Zauberbilder": Thomas Mann, Hans Pfitzner, and the Politics of Song Accompaniment / Nicholas Attfield


12. Performers' Reflections / Natasha Loges and Laura Tunbridge


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