Austin Glatthorn

Here is the Queen of the Night’s costume, from Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’, depicted in 1794. The accompanying text noted the opera’s renown, but still explained the scene for early audiences.

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Thank you, Neil!

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Thank you, Laurie! 😊

Today is my first day as Head of Research Management and Lecturer in Music at the Royal Northern College of Music!

In July 1792, the Mainz National #Theatre premiered the #opera ‘Heinrich der Löwe’ at the imperial coronation of Franz II in Frankfurt am Main, the last of the #HRE. Despite evidence of subsequent performances into the nineteenth century, very little of its #music has been found.

Finally getting to Jacqueline’s ‘Speaking German Musically’!

Day 1 of 2 of Estates Theatre fun.

Agreed!
It is not too bad at the moment, especially during the week. Weekends are a bit busier.

And of course revisit its stunning eighteenth-century #theatre…

It’s lovely being back in Český Krumlov. Can’t wait to introduce a new group of students to the town and region, and host a conference here later this month.

Book cover for Metropolitan Science, by Rebekah Higgitt and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin with Noah Moxham, published by Bloomsbury. The top half of the cover is a detail of a 17thC map of London.

Event at UCL on 29 May 6pm to celebrate publication of Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800. Join @jasminekt.bsky.social & me, in discussion with Simon Werrett & Tim Boon #histsci #earlymodern #18thcentury #londonhistory

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16th Century musicians (pipers) leaning on a musical stave

Seated shepherd playing the pipe next to a sleeping dog. Illustration in a 16th Century music manuscript

Today's marginal #musicians are a selection of #pipers from Zeghere van Male's #chansonnier, c1542
Ca Ms 125-128, 1542
www.diamm.ac.uk/sources/1669/

#earlymusic #earlymodern #16thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript #marginaliamonday #sheetmusic #piper

Baroque music in #manchester 🥳

Speaking German Musically: Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820 - Boydell and Brewer Shows how poetic recitation and the interweaving of music and poetry contributed to the advent of a German identity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-...

Jacqueline Waeber is a world-leading expert on (musical) #melodrama, and her work on the topic is largely responsible for my own interest in the genre. I can't wait to see the results of her latest study:
boydellandbrewer.com/978183765214...

I’m delighted to have been awarded SSHRC funding to support an international workshop in Český Krumlov. It will be the capstone to our ‘Cambridge History of German Opera to the Early 19c’, where contributors will discuss #earlymodern #German #music and #theatre (and see an opera on an 18c stage)!

Schweitzer: The Resurrection of Christ - YouTube

Happy Easter!
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Ah, Rosetti’s Partita in F Major, B18. He wrote some great music for Harmonie.

Hoffmann: Dirna, AV 51 - YouTube

Julius von Soden’s ‘Dirna’ was set to music by E.T.A. #Hoffmann for the Bamberg #theatre in 1809. The #melodrama was Hoffmann’s first contribution to the genre and the last significant dramatic work he composed for Bamberg, where he was active 1808–1813.
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The cover of a white paper booklet titles Early Modern Digital Itineraries and featuring an early printed map of Europe

📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...

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Actor-soprano Catarina Cavalieri (1755–1801) as Sophie in Ignaz Umlauf's 'Die Bergknappen'. Following this inaugural production of Vienna's National Singspiel in 1778, #Cavalieri appeared with the company in 18 leading roles and created characters in #operas by Salieri & Mozart.

Corona Schröter’s ‘Fünf und Zwanzig Lieder’ (1786) lists subscribers, their locations, and the quantity ordered. Alongside 64 copies intended for 15 local noble patrons, 506 copies of her #songs reached musicians in at least 47 locations, summarised in the #map below.

J.S. #Bach was born #OTD (Julian calendar) in Eisenach. This #map summarises the places Bach knew, as well as when he first came to know them. For more info, see the sources indicated on the map (among the many other books exploring Bach's life!).

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Lost Music for the 1613 Palatine Wedding Masques Presenter: Ross Duffin, Distinguished University Professor and Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University The 1613 marriage of Princess...

Rescheduled to tomorrow due to the fires in January. Nice that the book is actually out now. Please come if you’re nearby. Live music, of course!
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I just passed by the Posthof Bacharach (originally a cloister but a Thurn and Taxis post station from the end of the 18c)!

I can't think of a scholarly monograph that deals specifically with that work. But it is discussed in 'Cabals and Satires' (Woodfield, 2018), 'Genre and Form in German Opera' (in The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera; Joubert, 2009), and much of Hubert Unverricht's work on Ditters.

The earliest references to the work use 'Der Apotheker und der Doktor'. Although this was the most common variant I encountered, there were others like 'Der Doktor und der Apotheker', becoming 'Doktor und Apotheker' (by far the most common in secondary literature).
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