Knowra Carl Dahlhaus Carl Dahlhaus Carl Dahlhaus (1928–1989) was a German musicologist whose influential scholarship reshaped the study of nineteenth-century music, musical aesthetics, and compositional history.
Musicology : The scholarly study of music, including its history, theory, cultural contexts, and practices. Dahlhaus helped establish historically grounded musicology as a major scholarly discipline.
The Idea of Absolute Music : Carl Dahlhaus’s study of the history and changing meanings of music understood as autonomous from text or function. It traces a central aesthetic idea through the musical debates Dahlhaus helped reinterpret.
Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht : A German musicologist known for scholarship on musical meaning, medieval music, and music historiography. Eggebrecht was a major contemporary whose work shared debates over music’s historical interpretation.
Franz Brendel : A nineteenth-century German music critic who promoted the New German School and its progressive view of musical history. His partisan historical narrative contrasts with Dahlhaus’s analysis of competing musical factions.
Musical historiography : The study of how histories of music are written, organized, and interpreted. Dahlhaus scrutinized the assumptions behind narratives of musical progress and periodization.
Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality : Carl Dahlhaus’s historical investigation of how harmonic tonality emerged in European music. It applies his contextual method to a long-term change in musical language.
Hermann Danuser : A Swiss musicologist whose research addresses music history, twentieth-century music, and musical aesthetics. Danuser belonged to the next generation shaped by the questions Dahlhaus raised.
Johannes Brahms : A German composer whose work became a focal point in nineteenth-century disputes over musical tradition and progress. The Brahms–Wagner divide exposes the opposed historical camps Dahlhaus examined.
Musical aesthetics : The philosophical study of music’s nature, meaning, value, and experience. Aesthetics was a central subject in Dahlhaus’s historical and philosophical writing.
Ludwig van Beethoven : A German composer whose music became a defining reference point for nineteenth-century musical history. Dahlhaus reassessed Beethoven’s historical position and the changing meanings attached to his works.
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