Crossing confessional boundaries: the patronage of Italian sacred music in seventeenth-century dresden

This book is an examination of the uneasy alliance of two confessions, Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent seventeenth-century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars. Shortly after assuming the Saxon throne in 1656, Lutheran Elector Johann Georg II (r. 1656-80) replaced the elder Kapellmeister Heinrich Schtzwith younger Italian Catholic composers. Seemingly overnight, sacred music inthe most modern Italian style, first by Vincenzo Albrici (1631-90/96) and later by Giuseppe Peranda (ca. 1625-75) supplanted the more traditional Schtzian sacred concerto and Spruchmotette, effecting a change in musical and spirituallife bothwithin 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 the larger confessional conflict that gripped the city of Dresden and its implications for the Catholic-leaning elector's musical agenda. She then examines the Latin texts set by Albrici and Peranda, a body of works dominated by expressions of mystical devotion typical of the repertoire then heard in Italy.However, drawing upon recent studies of the phenomenon of "new piety" in seventeenth-century Lutheranism, Frandsen locates these texts squarely within the realm of contemporary Lutheran spirituality, and demonstrates their congruity with devotional materials used by Lutherans since the mid-sixteenth century. INDICE: Abbreviations List of Musical Examples Prologue: The Forgotten Mzen Johann Georg II 1. The Advent of the Italiens, 1651-56 2. The Itatienate Hofkapelle of Johann Georg II, 1656-80 3. Johann Georg II and the Problem of Catholocism 4. Piety, Penitance, and Praise: The Dresden Textual Repetoire 5. Romatrapianata: The New Sacred Concerto in Dresden 6. Musica pathetica: Style andAffect in the Dresden Concerto 7. Johann Georg's Vision for Worship 8. Musik im Gottesdienst: The Liturgical Year at the Dresden Court Epilogue: Johann Georg II Remembered Appendix I: Source Documents Appendix II: Sacred Vocal Works of the Principle Dresden Court Composers Bibliography of Primary Sources Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-986249-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 530
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés