@article{37915,
  abstract     = {{An unremarkable collection of music, examined by the author, is found to yield some interesting early-twentieth-century social history. The music from which Lucia König, a lower-middle-class girl, learned the piano, becomes a means of exploring her lifeworld. König described herself as a höhere Tochter: her parents, keen to improve her social standing, could afford to pay for a piano and some lessons, and thus offer her an opportunity for social improvement. Information gleaned from markings on König’s music, and from its physical condition, reveal her as hard-working student and a talented pianist. König’s music is in many respects typical of a höhere Tochter, as described in previous social-historical research, but it differs in ways that show her to have developed her own tastes and self-determined practice. The article also shows that apparently unpromising material can provide useful research material for both musicology and gender studies.}},
  author       = {{Grotjahn, Rebecca}},
  issn         = {{0266-3554}},
  journal      = {{German History}},
  number       = {{3}},
  pages        = {{395–411}},
  title        = {{{Playing at Refinement. A Musicological Approach to Music, Gender and Class Around 1900}}},
  doi          = {{10.1093/gerhis/ghs064}},
  volume       = {{30}},
  year         = {{2012}},
}