Foreword by Michael Talbot
'Das gantze Corpus derer...musicirenden Personen': An Introduction
to German Hofkapellen -
'Das gantze Corpus derer...musicirenden Personen': An Introduction
to German Hofkapellen - Barbara Reul
The Court of Saxony-Dresden - Janice Stockigt
The Saxon Court of the Kingdom of Poland - Alina
Zorawska-Witkowska
The Court of Brandenburg-Prussia - Mary Oleskiewicz
The Palatine Court in Mannheim - Bärbel Pelker
The Court of Württemberg-Stuttgart -
The Court of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg - Bert Siegmund
The Courts of Saxony-Weissenfels, Saxony-Merseburg and Saxony-Zeitz
- Wolfgang Ruf
The Court of Anhalt-Zerbst - Barbara Reul
The Court of Sondershausen - Michael Maul
The Court of Würzburg - Dieter Kirsch
The Court of Hesse-Darmstadt - Ursula Kramer
The Court of Baden-Durlach in Karlsruhe - Rüdiger Thomsen-Fürst
The Court of Brandenburg-Culmbach-Bayreuth - Rashid-S Pegah
'Die vornehmste Hof-Tugend': German Musicians' Reflections on
Eighteenth-Century Court Life -
Ultimately, this book is to be highly recommended: it will make a
valuable and indispensable addition to the libraries of both
scholars of eighteenth-century music and those from other
disciplines who want to expand their knowledge of the role of music
[...] in the self-fashioning and sustenance of European monarchic
structures.
*NOTES*
This book is one of the most important contributions to our
understanding of the context of the music most familiar to
musicians and concert-goers today. [...] The editors have gathered
an expert team; their own contributions are paradigms of
accessibility. I commend this important book to every serious
musician's book shelf.
*STRINGENDO*
The editors of this volume are [...] to be congratulated on
assembling a systematically organized collection of essays by an
impressive international panel of scholars, each of whom is an
expert on a particular court and its archival sources. [...] It
includes much new and occasionally surprising information, and a
substantial amount of material made available in English for the
first time.
*MUSICOLOGY AUSTRALIA*
The detail presented in this book is remarkable [...] a useful book
which extends our knowledge of courtly music-making in Germany
during this time, and it will undoubtedly be of value to scholars
of the period.
*THE CONSORT*
[A] valuable resource for any historical musicologist investigating
this extraordinarily productive and fascinating period of German
music history, and I hope it encourages and enables more research
in this area, and ultimately more performances of its many
forgotten treasures.
*CONTEXT*
[T]he treasures in [the book's] 500 pages will satisfy a whole
range of other music historical interests for years to come. The
personnel lists, mini biographies and sheer number of name
references to rulers and the musicians in their employ are
invaluable.
*MUSICAL TIMES*
[A] fascinating picture emerges of the birth and nurture of a rich
musical tradition which continues today in democratic form with the
unequalled wealth of German musical performance in virtually every
German town.
*CLASSICAL MUSIC*
[T]his valuable book provides a reliable source of information for
anyone interested in 18th-century music in Germany. [...] there is
an abundance of knowledge here from which everyone can draw.
*EARLY MUSIC REVIEW*
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