Here is the Dahlhaus quote I alluded to in class on 8/29. It’s in the intro of Nineteenth-Century Music I had forgotten that it was in reference to our old friend R.G. Kiesewetter. He writes:
Raphael Georg Kiesewtter, a connoisseur of early music whom one could scarcely accuse of being brainlessly susceptible to the “Rossini craze,” referred in his Geshichte der europaisch-abendlandischen oder unserer heutigen Musik of 1834 to his own age as the “era of Beethoven and Rossini.” As jarring as this combination may at first seem, we could find worse criteria for judging any music history that attempts to reconstruct the past in its own terms than to see whether it was able to find a vantage point that illuminates the resonse for Kiesewetter’s claim. (p.8)
The rest of this section entitled “Twin Styles” is worth a read, as it really relates quite nicely to our discussion.