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Among recent approaches to Classic music, one of the most revealing is the investigation of expression via topoi. Pioneered by Leonard Ratner, and developed by leading musicologists specializing in 18th-century music, this system identifies characteristic figures and styles that conveyed specific meanings to 18th-century audiences via processes of association. These implications resulted from intimate contacts with everyday musical activities in worship, entertainment, dance ceremonies, the military, hunt, and outdoor events. Familiarity with such characteristic topoi and styles enables listeners and performers today to reconstruct the original venues of communication between composers and their audiences. Serving as case studies, this paper explores the expressive content of two concertos intended for aristocratic women performers in Salzburg: the Concerto for three keyboards in F, K. 242 (1776), written for the Countess Antonia Lodron and her two daughters, Aloysia and Josepha, and the keyboard concerto in C, K. 246 (1776) intended for the Countess Antonia Lützow. Indeed, it seems that much as Mozart provided his singers with arias that were tailored to their voices,3 in these cases, he granted the Countesses music that was redolent of their social milieu. In support of this hypothesis, this article opens with a description of several social-musical activities that engaged the Lodron and Lützow families in Salzburg during the 1770s. It then proceeds to discuss references to these concertos found in the Mozart family correspondence. While much of this information is gleaned from well-known Mozart sources, its recall establishes the cultural and sociological context for these specific works, and provides an insight into the manner of performance that Mozart valued for this music. The paper concludes with a semiotic analysis of selected passages, suggesting that the choice of the topical content bears homage to the women dedicatees.
As editor of the next iteration of the Köchel Catalogue, I have to deal with the current (sixth) edition’s Appendix C, devoted to "Doubtful and Misattributed Works." My goal is to reduce the potentially vast dimensions of that appendix to only those works for which some connection to Mozart cannot be ruled out. In the decades since 1964, when the current edition of Köchel was published, many of the works listed in Appendix C have been convincingly attributed to other composers. Other works therein can confidently be dismissed as never having had any meaningful connection to Mozart. Yet even after removing the reattributed and trivially misattributed works from the appendix, we are left with a handful of works that may possibly have had something to do with Mozart, even if clear evidence one way or the other remains elusive. One must, of course, be cautious in removing questionable and doubtful works from the catalogue, as the present case-study will illustrate. The work under consideration, catalogued as K6 Anh. C 9.07, is an unaccompanied piece for three or four voices with the text "Venerabilis barba capucinorum." ...
Schule des Orgelspiels
(1947)
Nous publions ici les soixante-deux lettres écrites entre 1912 (ou 1913) et 1937 à Hélène et Alfredo Casella. Celui-ci, qui avait été un des premiers compositeurs à rejoindre la Société Musicale Indépendante, y assumait les fonctions de Secrétaire Général, et était efficacement secondé dans cette tâche par sa femme Hélène Kahn-Casella dont il devait se séparer en 1919. Quelques-unes de ces lettres ont été reproduites dans l´ouvrage de René Chalupt : Ravel au miroir de ses lettres (Robert Laffont, 1956).
Julius Stockhausen (1826 - 1906) war als Oratorien- und Konzertsänger, ebenso auch als Gesangspädagoge weltberühmt. Seit 1878 lebte er in Frankfurt, zunächst als Lehrer am Hochschen Konservatorium, dann als Leiter einer eigenen Gesangsschule. Die wertvollsten Teile seines Nachlasses, vor allem die Musikautographen, wurden nach Stockhausens Tod durch eine Auktion verstreut. Dagegen blieben annähernd 850 Briefe von einem weiten Personenkreis des europäischen Musiklebens an Stockhausen zunächst im Familienbesitz erhalten; ebenso seine Familienkorrespondenz, die Tagebücher, Konzertprogramme und ein erlesener Bestand mit Musikdrucken. Der handschriftliche Bestand konnte um 1957 von unserer Bibliothek erworben werden, die Druckwerke waren bereits vor 1945 in die Rothschildsche Bibliothek gelangt.
As we shall see, the two composers can be understood as opposites in many respects. While some superficial details of Verdis style were imitated by contemporary operatic composers, Verdi should be understood as exceptional, as pursuing a unique path amidst the Italian opera of his time. Rather than imitating either the concision of Verdis operas or their even more striking dramatic intensity, Petrella and most other Italian composers of the period instead downplayed these elements and sought instead to develop melodic appeal above all.