European musical competitions, 1700-1940 : history, context and meanings / edited by Charles Edward McGuire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McGuire, Charles Edward, editor.

Series:

Speculum musicae ; v. 56.

Specvlvm Mvsicae ; 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Competitions--Europe.

Music.

music (discipline).

Physical Description:

411 pages : illustrations, music ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2025.

Summary:

"As music moved from the church and court into the public sphere, competitions - as loci of taste, judgements of one performer's excellence over another, or as a way to improve the musical abilities of a nation - became increasingly important throughout Europe. Such competitions had multivalent meanings: in some cases, they became a way to achieve public fame and have a lucrative career in an era when individual patronage was on the wane. In others, they encouraged new national schools of performance, attempted to resurrect a historical tradition, or placed an official imprimatur on an existing one. European Musical Competitions, 1700-1940: History, Contexts and Meanings is the first volume to investigate the rise and preponderance of such contests throughout the continent. The fourteen essays in this volume address competitions by individuals from Johann Sebastian Bach to Josefa Bustamante in locations across Europe from Dublin to St. Petersburg and Osijetk to Paris. It further illumines how government-sponsored institutions in such diverse places tried to both foster musical abilities and foment taste."-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Preface / Charles Edward McGuire

Part 1: Musicans and Competitions. Bach's Contests against Marchand and Pan: Facts and Fiction in Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Competitions / Markus Rathey

Prestige and Promotion of Women in Music at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century in Spain: Josefa Bustamante and the Premio Barranco / Helena Martínez Díaz

Comparer pour mieux chanter: les émotions suscitées par les rivalités entre artistes lyriques en France au XIXe siècle / Martin Barré

An Italian, Ukrainian, and Frenchman in Performance: Competing Colleagues in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg / Victoria Gryneko

Who Should Have Won the Prize Musick? / Joe Lockwood

Part II : Competitions in French Institutions. Le concours des prix du Conservatoire de musique de Paris, 1795-1900 / Fréderic de la Grandville

Competition in Jean-Louis Tulou's Flute Class at the Paris Conservatoire, 1829-1859 / Anne Pustlauk

"Travaillez jeunes gens" : description du concours du Conservatoire de Paris, 1896-1920 / Apolline Gouzi, Arthur Macé, Yannaël Pasquier

Les concours de musique à l'Exposition universelle de 1867 / Laure Schnapper

Arbitrating 'Authenticity': The Schola Cantorum's Concours de Chants Populaires (1903-1904) and Its Losers / Peter Asimov

PART III: Competitions and nation building. Transporting Culture: The Train and the Origin of Choral Competitions in Flemish Belgium / Jan Dewilde

Musical Competitions in the Shade of Politics: Three Case Studies from Croatia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century / Vjera Katalinić

"Will the Feis project ever come to anything - and if so, to what?" : Establishing the Operational and Choral Networks of the Dublin Feis Ceoil / Helen Doyle

Musical Contests and Asserting Control: British Competition Festivals, 1880-1930 / Charles Edward McGuire

Abstract and Biographies

Index of Names.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9782503618616

2503618618

OCLC:

1524387989