MS 376 - Music of the Late 19th Century and Fin de Siècle

This course offers a historical survey of the music composed or premiered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the cultural sphere of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, including music by Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss I, Anton Bruckner, Antonín Dvořák, Agnes Tyrrell, Hugo Wolf, Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. It will involve stylistic analysis of compositions and will emphasize the historical, socio-cultural and artistic sphere that surrounded these musicians. The course includes excursions to historical sites.