Austin Glatthorn

Lecturer in Performance (Academic Education Pathway) | King's College London

🚨WE'RE HIRING AGAIN – AGAIN!🚨 Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Super excited to announce this post:

Lecturer in Performance, fixed-term 2 years

We're looking for a distinguished performer and performance teacher to head up our new MMus Performance specialism

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/138365-...

Lecturer in Music History | King's College London

🚨WE'RE HIRING AGAIN!🚨 Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Permanent lectureship in historically European music (anywhere in the world) in the long 18C. Must have PhD in hand at application.

Deadline 12th March; job talks/interviews 1st & 2nd April for ASAP start.

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/138148-...

Thanks!

I enjoyed my tenure as Reviews Editor at 'Eighteenth-Century Music'. It was a wonderful experience, and I learned a lot from that role and my amazing colleagues. It was a difficult decision to step down, but I look forward to supporting the journal in this new capacity!

And congrats, Annika!

Call for Expressions of Interest – British Academy International Fellowships at the RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music Call for Expressions of Interest – British Academy International Fellowships at the Royal Northern College of Music The […]

📣 Call for Expressions of Interest 👇

The RNCM invites proposals from international early‑career researchers, particularly those addressing wind & brass band music, for the @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships 2026.

📆 EoI deadline: 17 February 2026

🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

Only 2 weeks left to submit your proposal for this year's Medieval Germany Workshop in cooperation with German History Society! 📯

📅 29 May 2026
📍German Historical Institute London
⏰ Deadline: 15 February 2026
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#OTD 1789: ice on the #Danube broke causing severe flooding in #Linz (among other places). Maria Magdalena #Kauth responded by composing and publishing ‘Gemälde der Natur’ to raise funds for the victims. Depicting a storm, the #melodrama commemorated the flood, victims, and rescuers.

#OTD 1775: ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ premiered in the Friedenstein Palace #Theatre, Gotha. Created to highlight the talents of actor Esther C. #Brandes by Georg Benda and her husband Johann, the #melodrama was a sensation that was translated for performance across #eighteenth-century Europe.

Wolfgang Amadeus #Mozart was born #OTD, 1756. Here is a simple #map I quickly of his life’s travels a while ago (I hope to remake it soon). My maps have tended to summarize the journeys of #18c musicians. This time I went for completeness, so it is a bit crammed!

On the left is a picture of the RNCM building in the snow and under a clear blue sky. On the right is text announcement reading: Full Research Degree Awarding Powers: The RNCM has been authorised by the Office for Students to grant Research awards, with Full Degree Awarding Powers up to and including Level 8. Read more: rncm.ac.uk/news

On the left is a picture of Professor Wiebke Thormählen, RNCM's Director of Research. On the right is Wiebke's comments following the announcement of this exciting news: "RNCM's vibrant research culture is central to the institution's ethos and learning environment. The authorisation of Full Degree Awarding Powers is a key piece in upholding and continually enhancing the music industry training that we provide for students across all levels of study".

Our Spring Term has just begun and we're kicking off 2026 with some exciting news!

The RNCM has been authorised by the Office for Students (OfS) to grant Research awards, giving us Full Degree Awarding Powers up to and including Level 8.

Read the full announcement:
🔗 www.rncm.ac.uk/news/rncm-se...

Well hello, again, Regensburg. It’s been a while!

👋 Alas, I won’t make it this trip (though it did cross my mind 😉)

Looking forward to it!

It’s great to be back in Munich for my last conference of the year. The Christmas season definitely helps the atmosphere!

The image in full glory. A ship sailing.

I mean, why not enjoy yourself, while being seated on top of ruined stony building that is sailing, on a wooden ship, powered by a mysterious energy that needs an exhaust pipe in the 1660s...

In the end, the abrupt regime change in #Mainz led to a scenario where the new administration was enthusiastic about—but financially, ideologically, and logistically ill-equipped to support—the #theatre that had flourished under the former electoral government and ultimately led to its collapse. 7/7

In mid-1793, troops from Brandenburg-Prussia retook the city. The bombardment destroyed the theatre, its sets, and wardrobe. The court eventually returned, but not the renowned Nationaltheater that performed before international audiences at imperial coronations in 1790 and 1792. 6/7

When elections were held in February 1793, only c400 showed up to vote after days of threats and coercion (Mainz’s total population was c30,000). Some elected in surrounding areas refused to serve. It seems as though they knew the Mainzer Republik’s days were numbered. And they were right. 5/7

Mainz’s c500 Jacobins listed in the Red Book tried organising their own political theatre in its place, but the few musicians and actors who remained refused to perform or lend costumes, sets, etc. Records, testimonies, and letters reveal most Mainzers refused to support the French. 4/7

The French and their supporters did at least try to raise money for the theatre through dances, as depicted below. Yet it was clear to Nationaltheater personnel by November that they had no future in Mainz: most fled to areas untouched by the war like Hamburg and Berlin. 3/7

Performances continued at first. But the theatre struggled without the ticket sales generated by Mainz’s electoral court and citizens. According to local actor Joseph Anton Christ, very few French military theatregoers paid: their belief in freedom and equality meant ‘everything must be free’. 2/7

#OTD 1792: the #Mainz Nationaltheater performed for the final time. Founded in 1788, it quickly became one of the leading German #opera and #theatre companies and performed at the imperial coronations of 1790 and 1792. Its fate changed when the French Army captured the city in Oct 1792...1/7

Apple Music nailed the genre of Vincenzo Righini's Missa Solenne (1790): Contemporary Pop

The image of 1612 shows an academic scene of early modern Europe: a lecture hall with a professor on a professorial chair at the upper centre, a large groups of students present. This is one from a series of eighteen plates by the workshop of Crispijn van de Passe, depicting scenes of academic life, more here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1972-0722-6-3

Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...

This is an incredible resource for anyone interested in—and especially those researching—#Mozart and the music of his contemporaries. If you aren't already familiar with the site, it is worth exploring.

Some shots from the wonderful Museu da Música Portuguesa/Casa Verdades de Faria

Come study with us!

At the first of my two remaining conferences of 2025. This one is in lovely Cascais, Portugal (the final one will be in Munich in December). It’s my first time in Cascais, and I’m really enjoying it so far.

Wool jacket and trousers with inlaid patchwork in yellow, white green and red with animals embroidered in wool and silk

Harlequin costume (German, #c18th #c18 #18thc), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

YouTube video by Ria Brezova Karl Ditters vo Dittersdorf Oboe Concertos, Lajos Lencses

#Nowspinning: Lajos Lencsés performing oboe concertos by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lJ0...