Convent Music And Politics In Eighteenth-Century Vienna

Janet K. Page explores the interaction of music and piety, court and church, as seen through the relationship between the Habsburg court and Vienna's convents. In the first full-length study of its kind, she reveals a golden age of convent music in Vienna and the convents' surprising engagement with contemporary politics.

• • Author: Janet K. Page
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Apr 24, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 318 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1107039088
• • ISBN-13: 9781107039087