"Nationalism & Music: Awakening Identity & Change w/Verdi, Dvorak, Smetna & Others.
With the advent of the revolutions of 1848 throughout Europe, the idea of national pride and collective identities began to take a radical shift. Prior to the revolution, a state was described as a reflection of the history of its monarch’s and respective aristocracy, its spiritual belief system, and the two being championed in … Read more