Articles by tag "Wellesz, Egon"
“Baroque” in Early Musicology and Art History: Egon Welleszʼs Concept of an Austrian Tradition
In 1909 Egon Wellesz published the article “Renaissance und Barock” in which he applied the term “Baroque,” which originated in art history, to music. With this he introduced the name for this music-historical epoch to musicology at least ten years before Curt Sachs, whose essay “Barockmusik” (1919) is still commonly...
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