In this first monograph on E. T. A. Hoffmann and opera, Francien Markx examines Hoffmann’s writings on opera and the challenges they pose to established narra

A stimulating new approach to understanding the relationship between music and culture in the long nineteenth century.

Packed full of new archival evidence that reveals the interconnected world of music theatre during the 'Classical era', this interdisciplinary study investigate

The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism challenges our most basic assumptions about the history of an ideal at the heart of modernity. Beginning in antiquity and co

A unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making provided by the study of domestic musical arrangements of opera.