Music at German courts, 1715 - 1760 : changing artistic priorities / ed. by Samantha Owens, Barbara M. Reul and Janice B. Stockigt

• HerausgeberIn: Owens, Samantha; Reul, Barbara M. 1967-; Stockigt, Janice B.
• Place / Publishing House: Woodbridge [u.a.] : Boydell, 2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1. publ.
• Language: English
• Classification: 24.50 - Historische Musikwissenschaft
• Physical Description: XX, 484 S.; 24 cm
• Notes: What was musical life at German courts really like during the eighteenth century? Were musical ensembles as diverse as the Holy Roman Empire's kaleidoscopic political landscape? Through a series of individual case studies contributed by leading scholars from Germany, Poland, the United States, Canada, and Australia, this book investigates the realities of musical life at fifteen German courts of varied size (ranging from kingdoms to principalities), religious denomination, and geographical location. Significant shifts that occurred in the artistic priorities of each court are presented through a series of snapshots- in effect core sample years - which highlight both individual and shared patterns of development and decline. What emerges from the wealth of primary source material examined in this volume is an in-depth picture of music-making within the daily life of individual courts, featuring a cast of music directors, instrumentalists, and vocalists, together with numerous support staff drawn from across Europe. Music at German Courts serves to illustrate the extraordinary diversity of eighteenth-century German court music establishments without losing sight of what these Kapellen had in common. [Verlagsangabe]. - Inhalt: 1 Das gantze Corpus derer musicirenden Personen : An Introduction to German Hofkapellen; Kingdoms and Electorates; 2 The Court of Saxony-Dresden; 3 The Saxon Court of the Kingdom of Poland; 4 The Court of Brandenburg-Prussia; 5 The Palatine Court in Mannheim; Duchies; 6 The Court of Württemberg-Stuttgart; 7 The Court of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg; 8 The Courts of Saxony-Weißenfels, Saxony-Merseburg, and Saxony-Zeitz; Principalities and Prince-Bishoprics. 9 The Court of Anhalt-Zerbst10 The Court of Sondershausen; 11 The Court of Würzburg; Landgraviates and Margraviates; 12 The Court of Hesse-Darmstadt; 13 The Court of Baden-Durlach in Karlsruhe; 14 The Court of Brandenburg-Culmbach-Bayreuth; 15 Die vornehmste Hof-Tugend : German Musicians.