... and the Grand Inquisitor, I explore how aspects of the scene's musical unfolding foreground tensions between an increasingly prominent operatic past and an imagined operatic future. Ultimately, I argue that the opera's reception was saturated with concerns about an emerging phenomenon of “canonic listening...

... comments and suggestions. © 2010 by the Regents of the University of California 2010 amateurism correspondence canon self-construction bourgeoisie DAVID GRAMIT Letters of a German Amateur Everyday Extraordinary: Music in the Letters of a German Amateur, 1803 08 DAVID GRAMIT A. W. Müller...