Music for the Love of It: Episodes in Amateur Music-Making: Epstein, Joel: 9789659278237: Amazon.com: Books (original) (raw)

Music for the Love of It: Episodes in Amateur Music-Making Paperback – August 5, 2022

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A book for amateur musicians everywhere. Seven episodes in the history of amateur music-making. Together, they paint a broad picture of the history of amateur music in Western musical culture. If you play music, this book is about you.

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* Theodor Billroth, the dedicatee of Johannes Brahms's first and second string quartets, was an eminent professor of medicine, whose surgical innovations still bear his name. He was an avid amateur violist, and a leading partisan in the "War of the Romantics" - the conflict between Brahms and Wagner that shook the cultural world of the late 19th century.
* Queen Elizabeth I, a talented - and vain - amateur player of the clavichord and the lute, was a catalyst for the flowering of Britain's late Renaissance music.
* Vienna of the turn of the 19th century was music-mad. "Everyone played music," wrote one chronicler. Looking for partners for a string quartet? Just walk down the street and listen to the music coming from the windows.
* "“How do you know how many Jews live in a house?” asked Jewish writer Y.L. Peretz. “Count the fiddles hanging on the wall – that's how many men live in the house.” This is the captivating and little-known story of the romance between the Jews of the Russian "shtetl" community and music.
* The brass bands of Britain - This was a musical movement that swept up the entire British working class, and was also an intriguing, intensely Victorian, and somewhat bizarre experiment in social engineering.
* The story of amateur music-making in America is a story of women. “I do not think there has ever been a country whose musical development has been fostered so almost exclusively by women as America,” wrote conductor and musicologist Walter Damrosch.
* No book on amateur music is complete without a chapter on Walter Willson Cobbett. For W.W. Cobbett was the compleat amateur musician. He played or practiced his violin diligently two hours a day – “just 14 hours snatched from the weekly 168 hours of prose which make up a normal man’s existence, transmuted into poetry.” And when he wasn’t playing, he was promoting his numerous initiatives to advance the sacred cause of chamber music.