Concert Life after Chipp

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Author(s):  
William Weber

This chapter shows how selections from English operas composed between the 1730s and the 1790s—chiefly by Thomas Arne, Charles Dibdin, William Shield, and Stephen Storace—became standard repertory in concerts throughout the nineteenth century. Such pieces were performed at benefit concerts organized by individual musicians and at events given by local ensembles that blended songs with virtuoso pieces and orchestral numbers. Critical commentary on such songs justified their aesthetic legitimacy as groups separate from pieces deemed part of classical music. By 1900, songs by Arne, Storace, and even Dibdin were often sung in recitals along with German lieder and pieces from seventeenth- or eighteenth-century Italy or France. The solidity of this tradition contributed to the revival of the operas themselves from the 1920s, most often Arne’s Artaxerxes (1762). This chapter is paired with Rutger Helmers’s “National and international canons of opera in tsarist Russia.”


2021 ◽  
pp. 116-125
Author(s):  
М.В. Михеева

Весной 2021 года семья ленинградского композитора В. В. Щербачёва опубликовала за свой счет партитуру самого значительного сочинения в его симфоническом наследии — Симфонии № 2 для солистов, хора и оркестра на тексты Александра Блока. Созданное в первой половине 1920-х годов, произведение к настоящему моменту исполнялось лишь дважды: при жизни автора в 1927 году (дирижер В. А. Дранишников) и после его смерти в 1987 году (дирижер В. В. Катаев), в  связи с  чем предпринимается попытка объяснить этот исторический факт. Отдельное внимание посвящено обстановке премьерного показа и впечатлению, произведенному им на первых слушателей и отразившемуся в периодике тех лет. На основе личных бесед автора рецензии с внучкой композитора Е. О. Кучумовой воссоздаются обстоятельства исполнения симфонии, приуроченного к 100-ле тию со дня рождения композитора. Отмечается кропотливая работа редакторов— сотрудников Санкт-Петербургской консерватории Н. А. Мартынова и А. А. Красавина — по восстановлению нотного текста на основе сохранившейся рукописной копии переписчика и  стеклографического издания в  библиотеке «Дома музыки на  Старо-Петергофском» (в  прошлом библиотека Музфонда Ленинградского отделения Союза композиторов). Обосновывается необходимость включения данного монументального симфонического произведения в современную концертную жизнь. In spring 2021 the descendants of the Leningrad composer Vladimir Scherbachyov published for their own money the score of his most significant symphonic opus — Second Symphony for soloists, choir and orchestra with lyrics from Alexander Blok. Composed at the beginning of XX century, it has been performed just twice — during the life of the author at 1927 (conductor Vladimir Dranishnikov) and after his death at 1987 (conductor Vitaliy Kataev), which makes it necessary to explain this historical fact. Special attention is paid to premiere and impression on public, reflected in critical articles. Based on the personal conversation with Vladimir Scherbachyov’s granddaughter Elena Kuchumova circumstances about 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth performance are recreated. Nicolay Martynov and Alexey Krasavin performed rigorous work of on recreation of the score on the basis of a manuscript copy of autograph and steklograph edition held at library of “Musical House on Staro-Peterhofsky” (previously the library of Musical Fond of the Union of Composers of Leningrad). The necessity of including this monumental symphonic piece in the modern concert life is justifed.


1908 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 885
Author(s):  
Louis C. Elson ◽  
O. G. Sonneck
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Pauline Fairclough

The years 1937–53 are generally thought of as stagnant ones for Soviet concert repertoire. This view, however, is predicated on a number of assumptions: first, that the drop in Western modernism in the schedules and its replacement by Soviet works had a stultifying effect on concert life; second, that the era of Socialist Realism was damagingly insular; and third, that cultural exchange ceased and Soviet composers lost touch with what was being composed in the West. This chapter challenges all those assumptions by analysing concert schedules of this period, presenting evidence of semi-formal/informal cultural exchange and considering the notion that Socialist Realism was not an isolated trend but part of a large-scale shift in European and American art whose importance has been side-lined in a still dominant cultural narrative of technical progress and complexity.


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2019 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-96
Author(s):  
Kimberly Beck Hieb
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Author(s):  
Dana Gooley

Chapter 2 concerns the free fantasy and its relationship to the public concert life that emerged after 1815. Its main protagonists are Johann Nepomuk Hummel, the undisputed master of improvised free fantasia in this period, and his rival Ignaz Moscheles. Hummel’s free fantasias were admired for hybridizing the learned style of the kapellmeisters with the popular style associated with modern virtuosi, modeling a solution to one of the period’s major problems: the gap between experts and laypersons. In private circumstances Hummel improvised in a different way addressed to the values of connoisseurs alone, and some critics objected to his more “popular” public fantasies on given themes. Moscheles’s approach to free fantasies accented the hedonistic values of the genre, and in his reception we find the first stirrings of the improvisation imaginary. This chapter considers how improvisation served as a performance of authority and learnedness rooted in the kapellmeister network, a network that includes Mendelssohn, the little-known Carl Maria von Bocklet, and Hummel’s most celebrated student, Ferdinand Hiller.


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1944 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S. Hill
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