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Chapter 6 - The New German School

from Part I - People and Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2021

Joanne Cormac
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University of Nottingham
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The New German School is the designation adopted for the musicians and critics who identified with the concept of musical progress as embodied in the compositions and writings of Wagner, Berlioz and above all, Liszt. The term itself was coined in 1859 by Franz Brendel,1 who, as outspoken, forward-thinking editor of one of the day’s leading music journals, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, came to be considered the spokesperson for the New Germans. Brendel devised the name as an alternative to the misleading neologism ‘musicians (or music) of the future’ (Zukunftsmusik/Zukunftsmusiker), contrived by critics who opposed the compositional practices of Liszt and colleagues and criticised the aesthetic ideals promulgated by the New Germans overall.2

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Liszt in Context , pp. 48 - 57
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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