When did German Music Lose its Innocence?

Ryan Minor ( Ryan.Minor@stonybrook.edu ) is an Assistant Professor of Music History and Theory at SUNY, Stony Brook. Recent publications have appeared in Opera Quarterly, Cambridge Opera Journal, 19th-century Music and Franz Liszt and his World (ed. Christopher Gibbs and Dana Gooley, Princeton, NJ, 2006), and focus, in particular, on the aesthetic and political trajectories of the chorus within the changing landscapes of German musical culture in the nineteenth century. He is currently working on a book exploring the musical and political resonance of the chorus in nineteenth-century Germany.