Diplomacy and the Aristocracy as Patrons of Music and Theatre in the Europe of the Ancien Régime

Diplomacy and the Aristocracy as Patrons of Music and Theatre in the Europe of the Ancien Régime
Author: Iskrena Yordanova
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Total Pages: 901
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3990127705

This volume explores the dense networks created by diplomatic relationships between European courts and aristocratic households in the early modern age, with the emphasis on celebratory events and the circulation of theatrical plots and practitioners promoted by political and diplomatic connections. The offices of plenipotentiary ministers were often outposts providing useful information about cultural life in foreign countries. Sometimes the artistic strategies defined through the exchanges of couriers were destined to leave a legacy in the history of arts, especially of music and theatre. Ministers favored or promoted careers, described or made pieces of repertoire available to new audiences, and even supported practitioners in their difficult travels by planning profitable tours. They stood behind extraordinary artists and protected many stage performers with their authority, while carefully observing and transmitting precious information about the cultural and musical life of the countries where they resided.

Diplomacy and the Aristocracy as Patrons of Music and Theatre in the Europe of the Ancien Régime

Diplomacy and the Aristocracy as Patrons of Music and Theatre in the Europe of the Ancien Régime
Author: Iskrena Yordanova
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3990127691

This volume explores the dense networks created by diplomatic relationships between European courts and aristocratic households in the early modern age, with the emphasis on celebratory events and the circulation of theatrical plots and practitioners promoted by political and diplomatic connections. The offices of plenipotentiary ministers were often outposts providing useful information about cultural life in foreign countries. Sometimes the artistic strategies defined through the exchanges of couriers were destined to leave a legacy in the history of arts, especially of music and theatre. Ministers favored or promoted careers, described or made pieces of repertoire available to new audiences, and even supported practitioners in their difficult travels by planning profitable tours. They stood behind extraordinary artists and protected many stage performers with their authority, while carefully observing and transmitting precious information about the cultural and musical life of the countries where they resided.

Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe

Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe
Author: Iskrena Yordanova
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Total Pages: 679
Release: 2018-06-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3990125214

This volume is dedicated to "Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe", especially to the production of this music-dramatic genre at the courts on the Iberian Peninsula, in Italy, and the Holy Roman Empire where it was an integral part of court ceremonials and a privileged ritual of repraesentatio maiestatis. The 16 studies on patrons and artists, exceptional events and local traditions, reveal highly interesting material for the research on these up to now largely neglected genre. Any approach to these works full of metaphors, symbols and allusions has to take into account the context of the celebration and the resulting multiplicity of aspects: choice of themes, dramaturgical forms, textual and musical structures, vocal and instrumental ensembles, and the various options regarding the stage apparatus. "Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe", edited by Iskrena Yordanova (Lisbon) and Paologiovanni Maione (Naples), inaugurates the series "Cadernos de Queluz", a subseries of "Specula Spectacula" by Don Juan Archiv Wien.

Gender and Diplomacy

Gender and Diplomacy
Author: Roberta Anderson
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2021-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 3990128353

The book series "Diplomatica" of the Don Juan Archiv Wien researches cultural aspects of diplomacy and diplomatic history up to the nineteenth century. This second volume of the series features the proceedings of the Don Juan Archiv's symposium organized in March 2016 in cooperation with the University of Vienna and Stvdivm fÆsvlancm to discuss the topic of gender from a diplomatic-historical perspective, addressing questions of where women and men were positioned in the diplomacy of the early modern world. Gender might not always be the first topic that comes to mind when discussing international relations, but it has a considerable bearing on diplomatic issues. Scholars have not left this field of research unexplored, with a widening corpus of texts discussing modern diplomacy and gender. Women appear regularly in diplomatic contexts. As for the early modern world, ambassadorial positions were monopolized by men, yet women could and did perform diplomatic roles, both officially and unofficially. This is where the main focus of this volume lies. It features sixteen contributions in the following four "acts": Women as Diplomatic Actors, The Diplomacy of Queens, The Birth of the Ambassadress, and Stages for Male Diplomacy. Contributions are by Wolfram Aichinger | Roberta Anderson | Annalisa Biagianti | Osman Nihat Bişgin | John Condren | Camille Desenclos | Ekaterina Domnina | David García Cueto | María Concepción Gutiérrez Redondo | Armando Fabio Ivaldi | Rocío Martínez López | Laura Mesotten | Laura Oliván Santaliestra | Tracey A. Sowerby | Luis Tercero Casado | Pia Wallnig

Sigismund Neukomm in Brazil

Sigismund Neukomm in Brazil
Author: Reinhard Eisendle
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3990129759

On the "Rio Don-Giovanni-Day", 20 September 2021, a concert is dedicated to the works of Sigismund Neukomm composed in and for Brazil. The programme also includes a composition by the Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia (Rio 1767–1858), highly esteemed by Neukomm and occasionally described as "the Brazilian Mozart". He conducted the first performance of Mozart's Requiem with Neukomm's "Libera me" in the Igreja Nossa Senhora do Parto on 19 December 1819. The concert is a cooperation of Don Juan Archiv Wien with partners in Austria, Portugal, and Brazil: the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Divino Sospiro – Centro de Estudos Musicais Setecentistas de Portugal, and Musica Brasilis. Accordingly, the music will be performed in four locations: Vienna, Salzburg, Queluz/Lisbon, and Rio de Janeiro. While the partnering institutions' concerts with commentaries are recorded especially for this occasion, the performances in Vienna will be broadcast live.

Theatre Spaces for Music in 18th-Century Europe

Theatre Spaces for Music in 18th-Century Europe
Author: Iskrena Yordanova
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2020-09-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3990127721

This book explores the specificity and the heterogeneity of spaces for opera during the eighteenth century from a multidisciplinary point of view. Architects, musicologists and theatre specialists are discussing various cases that concern the dense network of court and public theatres, including the ephemeral ones, the multiple aspects of theatre presentations in different architectonic spaces, the contexts and the occasions of social life and representativity.

Eighteenth-Century Theatre Capitals: From Lisbon to St. Petersburg

Eighteenth-Century Theatre Capitals: From Lisbon to St. Petersburg
Author: Iskrena Yordanova
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2022-06-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3990940058

The fifth volume of the series Cadernos de Queluz intends to broaden the conceptual and geographical perspectives on the pan-European history of music theatre. The cultural and ceremonial patterns common to eighteenth-century European courts created complex webs of meaning around the sovereigns who communicated via the arts, which found expression in an architectural, artistic, and musical code. The existence of a common artistic language among European countries facilitated the circulation of musicians, theatrical companies, architects, librettists, and craftsmen within a single network, challenging the orthodox conceptual distinctions between European cultural traditions. This book is a virtual journey among the artistic exchanges between the European capitals, weaving them into one single narrative, underlining the common patterns of musical practices throughout the Continent, from West to East. The road map starts from the kingdom of Portugal and passes through Madrid, Paris, the Papal States, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and ends in St. Petersburg.

"Di Vienna e di me"

Author: Alberto Beniscelli
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3990128612

Nel corso della sua vita Metastasio tenne corrispondenza con numerose personalità appartenenti ai contesti più disparati; queste lettere private riguardano ogni ambito della sua opera, riflettendo i valori della società, le convenzioni e il complesso scambio culturale del XVIII secolo. I testi raccolti in questo volume offrono uno sguardo sulle molteplici sfere d'azione del Metastasio uomo di lettere e di cultura. Raccontano della creatività artistica del poeta cesareo, della sua partecipazione attiva alla vita intellettuale del suo tempo, e della fine dell'ancien régime, unita alla consapevolezza della caducità di ogni cosa. Im Laufe seines Lebens korrespondierte Pietro Metastasio mit zahlreichen Persönlichkeiten aus unterschiedlichen Milieus; dieser Schriftverkehr betraf alle Bereiche seines Schaffens und spiegelt gesellschaftliche Werte, Konventionen und den komplexen Kulturaustausch im 18. Jahrhundert wider. Die in diesem Band ausgewählten Briefe geben einen Einblick in die vielschichtigen Wirkungskreise des Literaten und Universalgelehrten Metastasio. Sie berichten von der künstlerischen Kreativität des Hofpoeten, von seiner aktiven Teilnahme am intellektuellen Leben seiner Zeit, sowie vom Ende des ancien régime, das mit dem Bewusstein der Vergänglichkeit aller Dinge einher ging. In the course of his life, Pietro Metastasio corresponded with numerous personalities from different milieus; this private correspondence concerned all areas of his creative work, reflecting the social values, onventions, and complex cultural exchanges of the eighteenth century. The letters selected provide insight into the multi- layered spheres of activity of the literary figure and polymath Metastasio. They chronicle the artistic creativity of the court poet and his active participation in the intellectual life of his time, but also the end of the ancien régime, coupled with an awareness of the transience of all things.

"Padron mio colendissimo...": Letters about Music and the Stage in the 18th Century

Author: Iskrena Yordanova
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Total Pages: 823
Release: 2021-06-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 3990129562

This volume explores the important role that epistolary exchanges play in the reconstruction of musical and theatrical contexts all over Europe in the early modern age, with particular attention to the century of the Enlightenment. Correspondence often bears witness to the reconstruction of performers' careers and theatrical venues, and to the transfers of professionals and repertoires, as well as to social themes and production issues. Archival sources, private letters, and official documents are not only rich in precious data and information, but can also provide material for new research perspectives, related both to their methodological implications and to the interpretation of music and theatre in a given time and place, along with raising questions about historical performance practices and their current revival.

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892367857

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.