Musicians' mobilities and music migrations in early modern Europe: biographical patterns and cultural exchanges

Besprochen in: www.sehepunkte.de, 18/1 (2018), Andreas Waczkat Renaissance Quarterly, 73/2 (2020), Sigrid Wirth

During the 17th and 18th century musicians' mobilities and migrations are essential for the European music history and the cultural exchange of music. Adopting viewpoints that reflect different methodological approaches and diversified research cultures, the book presents studies on central scopes, strategies and artistic outcomes of mobile and migratory musicians as well as on the transfer of music. By looking at elite and non-elite musicians and their everyday mobilities to major and minor centers of music production and practice, new biographical patterns and new stylistic paradigms in the European East, West and South emerge.

Frontmatter 1 Editorial 2 Content 5 Preface 9 Roads "which are commonly wonderful for the musicians" - Early Modern Times Musicians' Mobility and Migration 11 Migration and Biography The Case of Agostino Steffani 35 "try it elsewhere [...]" - Konrad Hagius and Musician's Mobility in Early Modern Times in Light of Local and Regional Profile 51 Competition at the Catholic Court of Munich Italian Musicians and Family Networks 73 From Munich to 'Foreign' Lands and Back Again Relocation of the Munich Court and Migration of Musicians (c. 1690-1715) 91 Migratory and Traveling Musicians at the Polish Royal Courts in the 17th Century The Case of Kaspar Förster the Younger 135 Foreign Musicians at the Polish Court in the Eighteenth Century The Case of Pietro Mira 151 Luka Sorgo - a Nobleman and Composer from Dubrovnik 171 MUSICI and MusMig Continuities and Discontinuities 185 Musical Travels Sources of Musicians' Tours and Migrations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century 207 " und bißhero mein Glück in der Welt zu suchen " - Notes on the Biography of Jonas Friederich Boenicke 227 The Russian Experience The Example of Filippo Balatri 241 Soloists of the Opera Productions in Brno, Holeov, Kromí and Vykov Italian Opera Singers in Moravian Sources c. 1720-1740 (Part I) 255 Vienna Kärntnertortheater Singers in the Letters from Georg Adam Hoffmann to Count Johann Adam von Questenberg Italian Opera Singers in Moravian Sources c. 1720-1740 (Part II) 275 Estienne Roger's Foreign Composers 295 From "Sonate a quattro" to "Concertos in Seven Parts" The Acclimatization of Two Compositions by Francesco Scarlatti 311 Spread of Italian Libretti Maria Clementina Sobieska Stuart - a Patron of Roman Operas 323 Migrations of Musical Repertoire The Attems Music Collection from Around 1744 341 The Case of Juraj Kriani (1619-1683?) - His Texts on Music. From Artefacts to Cultural Study (Croatian Writers on Music and The Transfer of Ideas in Their New Environments) 379 People and Places in a (Music) Source. A Case Study of Giuseppe Michele Stratico and His Theoretical Treatises (Croatian Writers on Music and Transfer of Ideas in Their New Environments) 389 List of Contributors 403 Index of Persons 409 Index of Places 425