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Building Orchestral Ensembles in St. Louis, Missouri, 1845-1890.

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Title/Author:	Building Orchestral Ensembles in St. Louis, Missouri, 1845-1890./
Author:	McClure, Sara.
Description:	1 online resource (260 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-03A.
Subject:	Music history. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798384436027

Building Orchestral Ensembles in St. Louis, Missouri, 1845-1890.
McClure, Sara.

Building Orchestral Ensembles in St. Louis, Missouri, 1845-1890. - 1 online resource (260 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

During the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, permanent orchestras became a hallmark of cities of all sizes in the United States. Histories of these ensembles are numerous, as are studies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art music in east-coast cities like New York, Boston, and even Charleston, S.C. By contrast, the history of orchestral music in nineteenth-century St. Louis has been sketched, but not thoroughly explored. My institutional history of St. Louis orchestral ensembles from 1845-1890 through documentation of concert programs and reviews of performances has allowed me to explore the increasing sacralization and professionalization of art music in a developing urban center beyond the east coast. The St. Louis Polyhymnia Society (1845-1855) was the first orchestra organized in St. Louis, and in 1854 and 1855, the highly successful Germania Musical Society came through the city on two different tours, providing musicians, audiences, and critics, with a musical model. A few years after the collapse of the Polyhymnia, as the Civil War loomed, a group of musicians and merchants gathered to form the St. Louis Philharmonic Society (1860-1870), hiring a German conductor who had recently immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That society had a choral element as well as the orchestra, and although it survived the war, financial difficulties brought it to an end. During the 1870s, an amateur ensemble called the Haydn Orchestra and visits from the fully professional Theodore Thomas Orchestra provided orchestral concerts in St. Louis. In 1880, two new organizations were formed: the St. Louis Musical Union and the St. Louis Choral Society. Conductors August Waldauer and Joseph Otten kept each group going for a decade; the Musical Union folded into the Choral Society in the summer of 1890. Earlier that year, Joseph Otten had begun his own orchestra, but merged that with the Choral Society as well, forming the St. Louis Choral-Symphony Society, the roots of today's St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798384436027Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179487
Music history.
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American musicIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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