Crossing Confessional Boundaries The Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Dresden

Name: Crossing Confessional Boundaries The Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Dresden
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ISBN: 9780195178319

ISBN-10: 0195178319

ISBN-13: 9780195178319

Edition: 2006

Authors: Mary E. Frandsen

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Shortly after assuming the Saxon throne in 1656, Lutheran Elector Johann Georg II (r. 1656-80) replaced the elder Kapellmeister Heinrich Schutz with younger Italian Catholic composers. Seemingly overnight, sacred music in the most modern Italian style, first by Vincenzo Albrici (1631-90/96) and later by Giuseppe Peranda (ca. 1625-75) supplanted the more traditional Schutzian sacred concerto and Spruchmotette, effecting a change in musical and spiritual life both within the walls of the Dresden court and beyond. Drawing on extensive research in primary source materials, Frandsen explores the elector's "Italianization" of the Hofkapelle with castrati and other Italian virtuosi, and examines…

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List price: $135.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/27/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 9.41" wide x 6.10" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 1.914



Prologue : the forgotten Mazen Johann Georg II



The advent of the Italians, 1651-56



The Italianate Hofkapelle of Johann Georg II, 1656-80



Johann Georg II and the problem of Catholicism



Piety, penitence, and praise : the Dresden textual repertoire



Roma trapiantata : the new sacred concerto in Dresden



Musica pathetica : style and affect in the Dresden concerto



Johann Georg's vision for worship



Musik im Gottesdienst : the liturgical year at the Dresden Court


Epilogue : Johann Georg II remembered



Sacred vocal works of the principal Dresden Court composers