Bücher von Joseph E. Morgan

Carl Maria von Weber is recognized as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music. Morgan walks readers through Weber's masterpieces, providing key insights by integrating critical points in the composer's life and the burgeoning Romantic and Nationalist movements in Germany that Weber's music came to champion.

In Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon and the Cosmopolitanism in the Early German Romantic, Joseph E. Morgan tracks the development of Weber's musical style across his career, within the cultural context of Germany's romantic period. This discussion with analyses features multiple musical examples and culminates with Weber's last and long-misunderstood work.