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History in Mighty Sounds: Musical Constructions of German National Identity, 1848 -1914

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An indispensable study of nineteenth-century German music, history and nationalism.

Music played a central role in the self-conception of middle-class Germans between the March Revolution of 1848 and the First World War. Although German music was widely held to be 'universal' and thus apolitical, it participated- like the other arts - in the historicist project of shaping the nation's future by calling on the national heritage. Compositions based on - often heavily mythologised - historical ...