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Title

Orchestral conducting in the nineteenth century / edited by Roberto Illiano and Michela Niccolai.

Publication

Turnhout : Brepols, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Illiano, Roberto.
• Niccolai, Michela.

Description

xiii, 441 pages : illustrations (black and white); 27 cm.

Summary

The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of the public figure of the orchestral conductor. Like composers and performers, orchestral conductors registered the transformed concept of the musical work. Whilst the Industrial Revolution generated new types of profession, the orchestral conductor's career emerged, as an outcome of the greater consideration that was devoted to the act of performance. In the present volume nineteen scholars explore historical and sociological phenomena connected to the nineteenth-century system of performance and musical production in which the orchestral conductor worked. A number of chapters investigate the musical performances of famous orchestral conductors; conducting by renowned composers (including Berlioz, Bottesini, Charpentier, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Paganini and Rolla) and orchestral treatises for military bands. The authors featured are: Fabrizio Ammetto, Maria Teresa Arfini, Rémy Campos, Paola Cannas, Antonio Carlini, Claudia Colombati, Mariateresa Dellaborra, Gilles Demonet, Elisa Grossato, Emmanuel Hervé, Étienne Jardin, Walter Kurt Kreyszig, Naomi Matsumoto, Michela Niccolai, Fiona M. Palmer, Rudolf Rasch, Renato Ricco, Gesine Schröder, Ruben Vernazza.

Series Statement

Speculum musicae ; volume 23

Uniform Title

Speculum musicae ; volume 23.

Subject

• Conducting > History > 19th century > Congresses

Note

• Papers (18 out of 26) from a conference at La Spezia, Italy, July 14-16 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• 7 English, 7 Italian, 3 French, 1 Spanish.

Contents

Conductors and conducting in 19th-century Britain: the Liverpool Philharmonic Society (1840-1895) / Fiona M. Palmer -- Michael Costa at the Haymarket: the establishment of the modern role of 'the director of music' / Naomi Matsumoto -- Les chefs d'orchestre dans les concerts parisiens de 1794 a 1815 / Étienne Jardin -- From Collegium Musicum to City Concert: the professionalisation of ensemble and orchestral music making in Utrecht / Rudolf Rasch -- Virtuosismo violinistico e direzione orchestrale: rapporti storici e scissione dei ruoli / Renato Ricco -- Naissance, épanouissement et subordination du directeur musical / Gilles Demonet -- La figura del direttore d'orchestra nella dimensione storico-estetica dell'Ottocento / Claudia Colombati -- Il direttore d'orchestra nel sistema produttivo del teatro d'opera italiano di fine Ottocento: un caso eloquente: Emilio Usiglio a Firenze nel 1892 / Ruben Vernazza -- Hector Berlioz's technique of conducting in theory and practice: his subdivision of the tactus in Le chef d'orchestre, théorie de son art and his scores / Walter Kurt Kreyszig -- The orchestra of the Paris Opera: a forgotten plan of the 19th century / Emmanuel Hervé -- Metamorfosi della direzione bandistica in Italia dall'Ottocento a Toscanini / Antonio Carlini -- Felix Mendelssohn direttore d'orchestra / Maria Teresa Arfini -- The historical theory of rhythm as instruction for conducting or how Liszt performed his symphonic poems / Gesine Schröder -- Alessandro Rolla direttore d'orchestra del Regio Teatro alla Scala / Mariateresa Dellaborra -- Dal virtuosismo strumentale alla direzione di idea: poliedrictà artistica di Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1899), un direttore d'orchestra "impeciato di quartettismo" / Elisa Grossato -- La répétition d'orchestre: d'un objet historique inédit à de nouvelles pratiques musicales / Rémy Campos -- Elementos de concertación en los conciertos para órgano y orquesta de Gaetano Valeri / Fabrizio Ammetto -- Sonata forms in performance / Paola Cannas.

Call Number

JMF 14-192

ISBN

• 9782503552477
• 2503552471

OCLC

885006309

Title

Orchestral conducting in the nineteenth century / edited by Roberto Illiano and Michela Niccolai.

Publisher

Turnhout : Brepols, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Speculum musicae ; volume 23

Speculum musicae ; volume 23.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

7 English, 7 Italian, 3 French, 1 Spanish.

Added Author

Illiano, Roberto.

Niccolai, Michela.

Research Call Number

JMF 14-192