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Book SynopsisTrade Review"By focusing on the milieu of middle-class amateurs rather than the professional world of the concert hall that has occupied most scholars, Lott provides a fresh perspective on the production and consumption of chamber music in nineteenth-century Europe.
The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music is an exemplary contextual study that enhances our appreciation of not only canonic masterworks but also lesser-known pieces written for this thriving market."--Walter Frisch, author of
Music in the Nineteenth Century"Marie Sumner Lott's monograph,
The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music: Composers, Consumers, Communities, takes us on a rewarding journey into chamber music's often hidden social worlds, adopting an approach accessible to a broad readership." --
Victorian Studies "This book is an extremely significant achievement. It is likely to attract the interest of a broader readership and is strongly recommended, both as a resource for students and more seasoned scholars. It is all too rare that one encounters a book that engages one's avid interest throughout: this was one of those books."--
Ad Parnassum"Recommended."--
Choice"By considering nineteenth-century chamber music as a practice that involved not only composition but also production, marketing, and both amateur and professional performance, Marie Sumner Lott provides a fascinating and valuable new perspective on both familiar and unfamiliar music. Anyone with a serious interest in chamber music for strings--or indeed nineteenth-century European musical practice--will enjoy and learn from
The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music."--David Gramit, author of
Cultivating Music: The Aspirations, Interests, and Limits of German Musical Culture, 1770-1848"Sumner Lott's book is well organized and easy to read, and it contains many fresh insights into nineteenth-century string chamber music."--Christina Bashford, author of
The Pursuit of High Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London"An imaginative excursion into the practical world of chamber music in the nineteenth century. Marie Sumner Lott exposes us to new repertories, which will interest string players. For musicologists and historians she proposes alternative historiographies that take composers' awareness of different audiences and expanded ideas about progressivism into account."--Mary Hunter, author of
The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of Entertainment
