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A Stylistic Assessment of the Viennese Symphony, 1790-1825

Stine, John A., Ph.D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1504803796200276

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2017, PhD, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Music (Musicology).
Our understanding of the Viennese symphony at the turn of the eighteenth century relies heavily on the symphonies of Franz Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven. While these works are deserving of praise and scholarship, limiting the repertoire studied to two composers cannot allow for a complete understanding of the Viennese symphony from this time. For this study, I researched and examined symphonies by six contemporaries of Haydn and Beethoven in order to attain a greater stylistic assessment of the genre from this time. Five of these composers---Anton Eberl (1765-1807), Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763-1850), Antoine Reicha (1770-1836), Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838), and Paul Wranitzky (1756-1808)---were highly regarded as performers and composers during their lifetimes, but their reputations and works quickly fell into obscurity following their deaths. Franz Schubert (1797-1828), the sixth composer in this study, has received considerable scholarly attention for his symphonies, but I included him in this study to focus on his earlier symphonies, which have not received much attention. An examination of the roughly seventy symphonies among these six composers provides a larger pool of works to assess the stylistic characteristics of the Viennese symphony during the time of Haydn and Beethoven. Through a combination of formal and stylistic analysis, I examine the formal approaches to the movements of the symphonies and the stylistic approaches to the use of the orchestra by each composer. With the information and analysis gained from this study, I place the symphonies of these composers in historical context and challenge the historical narrative constructed around the symphonies of Haydn and Beethoven.
Mary Sue Morrow, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Steven Cahn, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Jonathan Kregor, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
220 p.
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  • Stine, J. A. (2017). A Stylistic Assessment of the Viennese Symphony, 1790-1825 [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1504803796200276

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stine, John. A Stylistic Assessment of the Viennese Symphony, 1790-1825. 2017. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1504803796200276.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stine, John. "A Stylistic Assessment of the Viennese Symphony, 1790-1825." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1504803796200276

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