SH_V08 History of Music - Austria

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
6/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Irena Veselá, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Martin Celhoffer, Ph.D.
Academy of Ancient Music – Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: PhDr. Martin Celhoffer, Ph.D.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course intends to introduce the musical and cultural history of the Habsbug court in Vienna and the courts of other members of the Habsbug dynasty on the contemporary Republic of Austria territory.
The opening part of the course makes aware of the music at the Habsburg court in the 15th and 16th centuries including a brief insight into the general history of Europe at this time. The main part of the course covers the history of music at the imperial court in Vienna during the reign of the music-loving emperors Ferdinand III, Leopold I, Joseph I and Charles VI. There were the following composers appointed at the imperial court in the period 1637-1740: Froberger, Bertali, Draghi, Schmelzer, Poglietti, Fux, Caldara, Conti, etc.
The course continues with an introduction to the musical life at the court of Maria Theresia, Joseph II and Leopold II and is concluded with a brief survey of the music history at the archbishopric of Salzburg, which was not a part of the Habsburg territories in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The main objectives of the course are the following: To introduce the composers related to the Habsburg dynasty and the Austrian territory in the 15th-18th century. Understanding of the close relationship between the political and dynastical events and affairs and the musical and music-dramatical productions and between the musical taste of sovereigns and the appointments of various composers at the court.
Syllabus
  • Introduction: the history of Europe in the early modern age, the ascent of Habsburg power. Emperor Maximilian I. and the composers of Netherland’s polyphony (P. de la Rue), the composers at the Maximilian’s court: H. Isaac, P. Hofhaimer, L. Senfl and their works – sacred vocal and instrumental music, „Staatsmotetten“ with „political“ lyrics. The Habsburg dynasty at the beginning of the 16th century (Spanish and Austrian stem), the establishment of the Hofkapelle in Vienna, influence of Netherland’s polyphony, the Emperor Ferdinand I (+1564) and his Kapellmeisters H. Finck and A. von Bruck;
  • The Emperors Maximilian II (+1576) and Rudolf II (+1612), their Kapellmeisters J. Vaet and Ph. de Monte, composer J. Regnart, J. da Kerle, H. L. Hassler, the courts of Maximilian’s brothers Ferdinand and Charles in Innsbruck and Graz;
  • The end of Netherland’s polyphony at the imperial court and the beginning of the „Italian“ period in the court-music, the Emperor Ferdinand II (+1637) and his close relation to Venice and Mantova, his Italian wife Empress Eleonora Gonzaga and her Italian musicians, first opera-productions in the twenties of 17th century at the court in Viennna, dedications of several printed Italian compositions to the Emperor (from the composers Viadana, Vecchi, Monteverdi), regression of the culture in the time of the thirty-years-war, the Emperor Ferdinand III (+1657) and his Kapellmeisters G. Valentini and A. Bertali, Eleonora Gonzaga II, the second Empress from Mantova and her musicians;
  • The Emperor, musician and composer Leopold I (+1705), political situation during the time of his reign (the wars with Ottoman’s Empire, the turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, relationship to the French King Louis XIV), political events and affairs as baroque festivities with operas and ballets, oratorios for the time of the Lent, Leopold ‘s Kapellmeisters J. H. Schmelzer and A. Draghi, the poet N. Minato, the Emperor Joseph I (+1711) and the war of Spanish succession, court-composers J. J. Fux, G. Bononcini, C. A. Badia;
  • The reign of Charles VI (+1740), the main period of music-dramatial production at the court in Vienna, his Kapellmeister J. J. Fux and composers A. Caldara and F. B. Conti, the coronation of Charles VI and his wife Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in Prague 1723 and the production of J. J. Fux’ opera Costanza e Fortezza at the Castle of Prague, the court-poets P. Pariati, A. Zeno and P. Metastasio, the imperial style (der Imperialstil, der Kaiserstil) – a political program of Charles’ reign expressed in the art by means of many different symbols;
  • The end of Charles’ reign, the regression and decline of the luxurious music-dramatical productions, the first years of Maria Theresia’s (+1780) reign, the wars of the Austrian succession, the end of the court-opera-productions and decline of the domination of Italian culture at the court, influences of the French culture during the reign of Maria Theresia, the opera-reform in the works of Ch. W. Gluck. Maria Theresia’s Kapellmeisters and court-composers: L. A. Predieri, F. I. A. Tůma, F. L. Gassmann, Ch. W. Gluck, G. Bonno, A. Salieri, W. A. Mozart, the Emperor Joseph II and attempts to establish German-speaking opera in Vienna, Leopold II and his coronation in Prague with Mozart’s opera La Clemenza di Tito.
  • Salzburg: a brief history of the land and archbishopric, archbishops in the 17th century as patrons of music nad musicians: Marcus Sitticus von Hohenems and Max Gandolph von Khuenburg, most important composers of this time: H. I. F. Biber and G. Muffat, in the 18th century L. Mozart, his son Wolfgang Amadeus and M. Haydn.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: every other week.
General note: pro 3. semestr - PS05.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005.
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