{"id":54767,"date":"2026-07-23T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54767"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:32:39","slug":"philipp-ther-the-sound-of-habsburg-der-klang-der-monarchie-a-musical-history-of-the-austro-hungarian-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54767","title":{"rendered":"Philipp Ther: The Sound of Habsburg \/ Der Klang der Monarchie. A Musical History of the Austro-Hungarian Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A fascinating history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire told through the prism of the music it created and was shaped by<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the late 18th century onwards, the Habsburg Monarchy was on the decline internationally, and internally was riven by conflict. But time and again, the Habsburgs rallied together, survived the assaults of Napoleon, a sovereign debt crisis, the revolution of 1848, as well as the defeats to Italy and Prussia. Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven were instrumental in holding the empire together. \u00bbHabsburg Pop\u00ab reached the masses and became a global export. The Habsburg Empire hummed, sang, danced, drummed, and only went under when its great musical means failed in the Great War.<br><br>Written in engaging language that will appeal to a broader audience, this accessibility is augmented by an innovative new approach to music writing. Each chapter contains five to ten musical examples that can be downloaded via QR codes as an accompaniment to the reading experience. The book is broken up into ten chapters that each focus on a particular composer and their relationship to a key transformation in the history of the Habsburg Empire. For example, how Mozart helped create the figure of the freelance (and financially precarious) artist, and what Beethoven can tell us about the revolutionary potential of music.<br><br><strong>Music is one of the motors of history, and Philipp Ther uses it as a historical source. Described by the critic and essayist Gustav Seibt as a \u00bbsociohistorical prose artist\u00ab, in this work, Ther takes a look at the close relationship between power and music and shows how waltzes, polkas, and the precursors of Austro Pop held the state together. But while the Habsburg Monarchy met its end in 1918 \u2013 as Ther explains in this lilting, moving, and ultimately tragic book \u2013 it lives on in the music it gave birth to.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Philipp Ther<\/strong>, born in 1967, teaches Modern European and East European History at the University of Vienna. He has already published five books in English, and his publications have been translated into various other languages. He has received several prizes and awards, including\u00a0the 2015 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for <em>Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent<\/em>, which was also shortlisted for the Prix du livre europ\u00e9en. Furthermore, his work has earned him the Richard G. Plaschka Prize (2006) and the Wittgenstein Prize (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>2025, 564 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suhrkamp.de\/rights\/book\/philipp-ther-the-sound-of-habsburg-fr-9783518432464\">https:\/\/www.suhrkamp.de\/rights\/book\/philipp-ther-the-sound-of-habsburg-fr-9783518432464<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Filip Ba\u010durin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Opera, Music and Society in the 19th Century. An Interview with Philipp Ther<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pro tempore<\/em>, No. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hrcak.srce.hr\/clanak\/504223\">https:\/\/hrcak.srce.hr\/clanak\/504223<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"\"A fascinating history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire told through the prism of the music it created and was shaped by\""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/the-sound-of-habsburg.webp?fit=400%2C635&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54169,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54169","url_meta":{"origin":54767,"position":0},"title":"Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848\u20131918","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"18. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Edited by Marta Verginella Purdue University Press Series: Central European Studies 258 Pages Published 2023 Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848\u20131918 focuses on the lives of women in Southeastern Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, exploring the intersection of gender and nationalism. 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