Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Copyright page / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Dedication / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Acknowledgements / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Illustrations / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Abbreviations / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Introduction / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Introduction to Part 1 / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Chapter 1 Theater in the Second City / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Chapter 2 Pride and Scandal: Creating a Municipal Theater / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Introduction to Part 2 / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Chapter 3 Kunstkammer - Kunstverein - Kunstsmuseum: The City Art Museum / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Chapter 4 Art, Commerce, and a Global Presence: The Grassi Museum / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Introduction to Part 3 / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Chapter 5 Ensemble Players: The Großes Concert and Musical Life in Leipzig before 1850 / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Chapter 6 Excellence and Exclusivity: A New Concert Hall and Local Challenges / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Coda / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Bibliography / Margaret Eleanor Menninger -- Index / Margaret Eleanor Menninger.

This book offers a novel approach to the history of high culture and new perspectives on the history of civil society in provincial Germany. It makes the concept of place a central means for understanding how art culture was defined, consumed, and, importantly, distributed over the course of the long nineteenth century. It shows how "temples of culture" come to be built where they were built. It further demonstrates who participated in their planning, funding, construction, and ultimate evolution into public institutions, highlighting underexamined links between the history of art culture and that of urban history and civil society.

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