[Erk'Schen Männer-Gesangverein]; [Erk'Schen Men's Choir]; [German Songbooks]; [Choral Music]

Erk'Schen Männer-Gesangverein Berlin [= Erk'schen Men's Choir Berlin]; Vereins-Sonds [= Club Songs]

Berlin: Erk'schen Männer-Gesangverein [1902], 1902. Hardcover. 12mo. 17 c.m. x 10.5 c.m. [17], 1-16, [1] pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering and green decorations on the front board; all edges gilt. Floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several black and white photographs. With several pieces of ephemera laid in: little bits of sheet music, a concert program from October 1903, and a flyer or a cartoon from 1903. This is a German songbook for the members of Erk'Schen Men's Choir based in Berlin. This was a choir founded off of the legacy of German Romantic composer and teacher Ludwig Erk. This copy belonged to a Herr Neubauer, a teacher. The book is filled with information about the current members of the choir and the music they would perform. There are a few financial ledgers with paid stamps, representing the quarterly dues for the choir members. Ruth L. Dewhurst, "Unison and Harmony, Dissonance and Dissolution: German Choral
Societies in an Age of Rising Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Social Conflict, 1870-1918 ". Ruth L. Dewhurst argues that choirs like these contributed to and reflected the rise of German nationalism before the First World War. While the choir may have brought German people together, it also helped to forge inflexible ideas of identity, art, and achievement. This would help foster conflict between the nations that would eventually go on to fight one another in the First World War. Near Fine. Item #000012712

A spot of rubbing on the front board and a bookplate on the front pastedown.

Price: $125.00