GRMUS H667 — Chamber Music: From the Home to the Concert Hall

2 credits
Spring
Aaron Wunsch

In contrast to its name, chamber music today is very much a public genre. This course will investigate the musical and social changes that prompted the gradual shift from the home to the concert hall. Works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Spohr, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Fauré, among others, will be discussed, with emphasis on the ways in which an understanding of the context of this music can provide insight for our interpretation of it today. Varying interpretive approaches will be explored through both recorded and in-class performances.