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| Format | Manuscript |
|---|---|
| Title, Manuscript | Auswanderer/Einwanderer: Otto Dresel (1826-90) and the German-American Literati of New York |
| Date | c2018 |
| Extent of Work | 14 pages |
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| Abstract | "This paper examines [Dresel's] presence in the midst of an intellectual German-American community, one which included the pianist and conductor William Scharfenberg, the composer-publisher-impresario Herrman S. Saroni, and the writer and linguist Therese Albertine Luise von Jacob Robinson (known as Talvj.) In particular emphasis is placed on understanding how Dresel and other ‘literati’ made the social and artistic transition from German to ‘German-American’. Borrowing from Bohlman and Holzapfel’s concept of the pluri-experiential musics of emigration and of immigration, this paper discusses a pair of songs Dresel composed in New York in 1850, and explores their meaning as signifiers for these similar, yet distinct transitional experiences. " |
| Notes | Paper originally read at "Passagen," the 18th Congress of the International Musicological Society, Zürich, Switzerland, 10-15 July 2007 |
| MKI Annotation | Dresel, Otto (20 December 1826–26 July 1890), pianist, teacher, and composer, was born in Geisenheim, a town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. He visited New York City in 1848, playing in a series of concerts there in 1849. After a brief return to Germany, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1852. He married Anna Loring (1830–1896), daughter of Ellis Gray Loring, an abolitionist and a founder of the New England Anti-Slavery Society, on October 29, 1863. Wikipedia entry for Otto Dresel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Dresel |
| Call Number | Digital file |
| MKI Terms | Music/ Cultural influences/ German Americans -- New York/ Dresel, Otto, 1826-1890 |