Iskrena Yordanova, Francesco Cotticelli (eds.): Diplomacy and the Aristocracy as Patrons of Music and Theatre in the Europe of the Ancien Régime, Wien: Hollitzer Verlag, 2019 (Cadernos de Queluz 2 / Specula Spectacula 7), 546 S., 17,5 x 24,5 cm, Italian | Portuguese | English | Spanish, hardcover with dust jacket
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Diplomacy and the Aristocracy as Patrons of Music and Theatre in the Europe of the Ancien Régime
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.
INHALT
Introduction
ISKRENA YORDANOVA - FRANCESCO COTTICELLI
PART I
THE POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC DIMENSIONS OF MUSIC CULTURE’S PROTECTIONISM IN SEVENTEENTH-AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE
«…und mit der Protektion […] wird er, so hoffe ich, allen Beistand finden».
Meccanismi e protezionismo: «viaggiatori» stranieri…
HELEN GEYER
«Cacciarsi per tutto».
Considerazioni sull’«invenzione viaggiante» e gli spazi del potere
FRANCESCO COTTICELLI
PART II
FLORENCE 1625 / VIENNA 1782: THE CROWN PRINCE'S GRAND TOUR AND ITS IMPACT ON MUSICAL CULTURE
Ópera y diplomacia entre Italia y Polonia:
del paso de Vladislao Vasa por Florencia hasta la inauguración del teatro de Varsovia
DANIEL MARTÍN SÁEZ
When Music Suits Diplomacy:
The Grand Tour of Pavel Petrovich Romanov, 1781–1782
ANNA GIUST
PART III
MILAN: MANAGING OPERA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Patriziato, corti e impresariato teatrale in Italia nella seconda metà
del XVII secolo: il caso di Milano
ROBERTA CARPANI
PART IV
ROME: A STAGE FOR EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY
Al suo Augustissimo Servitio Nobili e coronate Teste Patrone
dei madrigali del musico di camera Domenico Dal Pane
MARIA PAOLA DEL DUCA
Il cardinale Pietro Ottoboni, la diplomazia e la musica (1689–1721)
TERESA CHIRICO
I cardinali Francesco e Troiano Acquaviva d’Aragona
nella cultura di corte del settecento romano
ROBERTO RICCI
PART V
THE PALATINATE (KURPFALZ): THE DYNASTIC AND DIPLOMATICAL STRATEGIES OF ELECTOR PHILIPP WILHELM AND HIS SON JOHANN WILHELM
Le figlie del Palatinato:
rigenerazione del sangue e trasferimenti culturali tra le corti europee
GIULIO SODANO
Dal Reno alla penisola iberica:
i «musici» spia dell’elettore Palatino Giovanni Guglielmo (1690–1716)
durante la Guerra di Successione Spagnola
VALENTINA ANZANI
PART VI
LISBON: DIPLOMACY AND THE STAGE
Lisbona nello specchio di Vienna:
le lettere di Giuseppe Zignoni per una nuova visione sul teatro
e sull’opera italiana in Portogallo
GIUSEPPINA RAGGI
The Noblemen’s Balcony:
a Perspective on Theatre Subscription
JOSÉ CAMõES - BRUNO HENRIQUES
Ópera italiana, Corte portuguesa, Embajador español.
El VI conde de Fernán Núñez y su labor como organizador musical
en la Lisboa de 1785
FRANCISCO JOSÉ ROSAL NADALES
PART VII
NAPLES: THE CULTURAL ACTIVITIES OF SPANISH AMBASSADORS UNDER THE REIGN OF CARLO BORBONE AND HIS SON FERDINAND
«Fece spiccare la magnificenza del suo Padrone»:
le feste ispaniche per la nascita dell’erede al trono di Napoli (1748)
PAOLOGIOVANNI MAIONE
Alfonso Clemente de Aróstegui:
musica, arte e mecenatismo nella Napoli borbonica di Carlo III
e Ferdinando IV
PAOLA DE SIMONE - NICOLÒ MACCAVINO
PART VIII
VENICE, DRESDEN, BERLIN, VIENNA: DIPLOMACY AND AESTHETIC DISCOURSE
Note sul processo creativo del Saggio sopra l’opera in musica
di Francesco Algarotti: una testimonianza di cultura europea
GIOVANNI POLIN
La Guerra dei Sette Anni (1756–1763).
Politica, miti e glorificazione di Casa d’Austria in alcuni spettacoli della «riforma» del conte Durazzo
ARMANDO FABIO IVALDI
APPENDIX
INDEX OF PERSONS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
