The Viennese Ballroom in the Age of Beethoven

Erica Buurman (San José State University, California)

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Cambridge University Press
21 December 2023

Dance; Music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)

The repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom was highly influential in the broader histories of both social dance and music in nineteenth-century Europe. Yet music scholarship has traditionally paid little attention to ballroom dance music before the era of the Strauss dynasty, with the exception of a handful of dances by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. This book positions Viennese social dances in their specific performing contexts and investigates the wider repertoire of the Viennese ballroom in the decades around 1800, most of which stems from dozens of non-canonical composers. Close examination of this material yields new insights into the social contexts associated with familiar dance types, and reveals that the ballroom repertoire of this period connected with virtually every aspect of Viennese musical life, from opera and concert music to the emerging category of entertainment music that was later exemplified by the waltzes of Lanner and Strauss.

By: Erica Buurman (San José State University California)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781108797856
ISBN 10: 1108797857
Pages: 207
Publication Date: 21 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. The public ball in Viennese musical life, 1770–1830; 2. Early waltz dances of the Viennese ballroom: transmission and transformation in eighteenth-century music and dance; 3. The minuet: performing aristocracy in the Viennese ballroom; 4. The contredanse: participation and spectatorship in the public ballroom; 5. Dance arrangements from the Viennese stage; 6. Battle waltzes: programmatic music in the ballroom; 7. The Congress dances': the Viennese public ball and court-sponsored festivities at the Congress of Vienna; Epilogue; Appendix: Selected original musical sources consulted; Bibliography.

Erica Buurman is Assistant Professor of Music at San José State University and Director of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies. Her research focuses on music of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, especially Beethoven, and social dance.