SKU: BR.BV-386
ISBN 9783765103865. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
The Bach-Archiv in Leipzig was the scene of a colloquium of renowned international experts in fall 2005: musicologists, editorial directors, archivists and performing artists got together to discuss how the music of Bach was disseminated in the first half of the 19th century. Several major composers played a key role in triggering the new appreciation of Bach and his music at this time: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, his sister Fanny Hensel and Robert Schumann. These three Romantic Bachians instigated developments that continue to affect concert life and editorial practice today. Our modern-day Bach image was heavily formed by their multi-faceted, fruitful activity. The Leipzig Bach-Archiv has meticulously edited this book of 24 essays as a concrete result of the colloquium and a source of new impulses for future research and musical practice. Insgesamt ein mit vielen verbluffenden Details und treffenden Generalabhandlungen gefullter Band, den man mit gehorigem Gewinn liest. (Wolfram Goertz, Bach-Magazin) Dank dieses weiteren Horizonts wird nicht nur der Musikwissenschaftler aus diesem sehr ordentlich redigierten Band mannigfach Gewinn ziehen, sondern auch der Musikinteressierte auf seine Kosten kommen. (Reinmar Emans, FonoForum).
SKU: BR.BV-444
ISBN 9783765104442. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Bachs works were definitely new once again in the mid 19th century, and particularly for Leipzig concert audiences. In fact, Anselm Hartinger even wonders what was old in Bachs music back then... Given the way that it was presented, we can say that this music was at least partly an invention of the time of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Hauptmann, and was adapted to musical practice by its discoverers for their purposes, which were absolutely modern back then. To bolster these provocative theses, the author bases himself on a wealth of previously mostly unexamined material from the years 1829 to 1852, the core period of the Bach revival performances. Hartinger chooses an investigative approach that supplies the first link between Bach-related reception research and local music-historical writing, which leads us to amazing insights. The Leipzig Bach-Archivs Reception Series is unquestionably treading on exciting new musicological terrain in this book.
SKU: BR.BV-390
Wollny's description of the life and work of Sara Levy is supplemented by letters and family documents, as well as by a listing of the works by the Bach family which had been collected by the Itzigs.
ISBN 9783765103902. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
In his essay on Sara Levy (1761-1854), Peter Wollny shows that Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's ancestors made a major contribution to the Bach reception of their time. Levy, who hailed from the Itzig family, gave musical soirees that testified to a veritable Bach cult, as the Berlin Court Kapellmeister Johann Friedrich Reichardt put it. As the central figure of the family activities, Levy was the patroness of the two eldest Bach sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, and concertized at the harpsichord with Carl Friedrich Zelter's ensemble and other Berlin orchestral societies. Der enorme Vorteil in diesem Band liegt darin, verstreut Bekanntes sinnvoll, schon und nutzlich vereinigt zu finden. (Peter Suhring, info-netz-musik).
SKU: BR.BV-443
ISBN 9783765104435. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
The international convention report focuses on Bach reception at the time of Mendelssohn and Schumann in the light of institutional and performance-practical continuities and upheavals. The broadly held view of the closure of an era between the 18th and 19th centuries proves to be no longer tenable. In its place emerges a new understanding of the vigor and durability of Baroque ensemble traditions and performance styles, which continued to thrive well into the 19th century and even into the early 20th century. The articles in this volume deal with this topic from the perspective sometimes for the very first time of the history of instruments, sources, institutions, society and composition technique.
SKU: BR.BV-481
Institutionen, Klangideale und Repertoires im Umbruch
ISBN 9783765104817. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Choral singing, together with organ music, was considered in the 18th and 19th centuries the church-music form of expression per se. So, choral singing and choral music played a dominant role in the 19th century for the Bach revival. Though in many places the political and social upheavals of the Napoleonic era brought some traditional musical institutions to an end, the St. Thomas School with its music boarding school at Leipzig was able to hold its ground and - thanks to a lengthy reorganizational process - dovetail with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, which had in turn arisen from a middle-class society. For the 800th anniversary in 2012 of the Leipzig St. Thomas Choir, a symposium was devoted to the institutional and musical transformation of choral traditions during this time period. The volume presents the results of this conference in an expanded and revised form: Examined from various perspectives are performance-practice aspects, such as the instruments available, the age at which the voice breaks, or the changes in vocal style, and discussed are institutional questions such as the conducting by prefects, the autonomous self-education, or the St. Thomas students' choice of repertoire.Institutionen, Klangideale und Repertoires im Umbruch.
SKU: BR.BV-441
ISBN 9783765104411. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
The 19 essays in this volume are a result of a symposium held in Leipzig in October 2007. It was the first congress of its kind to concern itself comprehensively and from a European viewpoint with the importance of the organ at the time of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Particular emphasis was placed there on the interconnection of aesthetics, genre history, performance practice and organology. Supplementing the book is a CD with a recording of Mendelssohns chorale fragment O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden completed by Rudolf Lutz. Scholarly research and historically informed practice come together in this audio contribution to the symposium.
SKU: HL.49019480
ISBN 9783795720063. German.
Das Jahrbuch des Staatlichen Instituts fur Musikforschung dokumentiert die wissenschaftliche Arbeit des Instituts und des Berliner Musikinstrumenten-Museums. Die Beitrage des Doppelbandes 2006/07 beschaftigen sich u. a. mit Aspekten der Mozart-Rezeption, so etwa mit Morikes Novelle 'Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag'. Weitere Themen: Dehmel-Vertonungen von Pfitzner und Sibelius. Eine neue Quelle zur Auffuhrungsgeschichte von Glucks 'Orpheus und Euridice'. Das Repertoire der Cappella Sistina um 1830. Bach-Pflege und deutsch-englischer Kulturtransfer im 19. Jahrhundert. Die Dupuis-Oboe im Musikinstrumenten-Museum SIMPK.
