Acknowledgements . viiNotes on Contributors . viiiIntroduction . 1 Krisztina Lajosi and Andreas Stynen 1 German Influences: Choirs, Repertoires, Nationalities . 14 Joep Leerssen 2 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in Nineteenth-Century France . 33 Sophie-Anne Leterrier 3 Song in the Service of Politics and the Building of Norway . 53 Anne Jorunn Kydland 4 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in the Nineteenth Century: A Scottish Perspective . 70 Jane Mallinson 5 Fighting Choirs: Choral Singing and the Emergence of a Welsh National Tradition, 1860-1914 .

83 Gareth Williams 6 The Large-Scale Oratorio Chorus in Nineteenth-Century England: Choral Power and the Role of Handel's Messiah . 99 Fiona M. Palmer 7 National Art and Local Sociability: Dutch Male Choral Societies in the Nineteenth Century . 111 Jozef Vos 8 The Choir Scene in Flemish Belgium in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Vlaemsch-Duitsch Zangverbond . 130 Jan Dewilde 9 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in the Basque Country: The Orfeon Donostiarra . 152 Carmen de las Cuevas Hevia 10 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in Catalonia, 1850-1930 . 157 Dominique Vidaud 11 "By Means of Singing to the Heart, by Means of Heart to the Homeland": Choral Societies and the Nationalist Mobilization of Czechs in theNineteenth Century . 187 Karel Sima, Tomás Kavka, and Hana Zimmerhaklová 12 Collapsing Stages and Standing Ovations: Hungarian Choral Societies and Sociability in the Nineteenth Century .

206 Krisztina Lajosi 13 Choral Societies and National Mobilization in the Serbian (Inter)national Network . 225 Tatjana Markovic 14 Choral Societies and National Mobilization in Nineteenth-Century Bulgaria . 241 Ivanka Vlaeva Bibliography . 261Index . 280.