Orchestral Conducting in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by Roberto Illiano Edited by Michela NiccolaI

Book cover: Orchestral Conducting in the Nineteenth Century

Extent: 455 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts, Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Speculum musicae

Series volume number: 23

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(June 2014)

ISBN: 9782503552477

Price: $163.00

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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


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, Remy Campos, Paola Cannas, Antonio Carlini, Claudia Colombati, Mariateresa Dellaborra, Gilles Demonet, Elisa Grossato, Emmanuel Herve, Etienne Jardin, Walter Kurt Kreyszig, Naomi Matsumoto, Michela Niccolai, Fiona M. Palmer, Rudolf Rasch, Renato Ricco, Gesine Schroder, Ruben Vernazza.

Foreword Conductors and Conducting in Nineteenth-Century Europe Fiona M. Palmer, Conductors and Conducting in 19th-Century Britain: The Liverpool Philharmonic Society (1840-1895) Naomi Matsumoto, Michael Costa at the Haymarket: The Establishment of the Modern Role of 'The Director of Music' Etienne Jardin, Les chefs d'orchestre dans les concerts parisiens de 1794 a 1815 Rudolf Rasch, From Collegium musicum to City Concert: The Professionalisation of Ensemble and Orchestral Music Making in Utrecht Historical, Aesthetic and Sociological Aspects Renato Ricco, Virtuosismo violinistico e direzione orchestrale: rapporti storici e scissione dei ruoli Gilles Demonet, Naissance, epanouissement et subordination du directeur musical Claudia Colombati, La figura del direttore d'orchestra nella dimensione storico-estetica dell'Ottocento Ruben Vernazza, Il direttore d'orchestra nel sistema produttivo del teatro d'opera italiano di fine Ottocento. Un caso eloquente: Emilio Usiglio a Firenze nel 1892 Techniques, Orchestral Dispositions, Treatises Walter Kurt Kreyszig, Hector Berlioz's Technique of Conducting in Theory and Practice. His Subdivision of the tactus in Le chef d'orchestre, theorie de son art and His Scores Emmanuel Herve, The Orchestra of the Paris Opera: A Forgotten Plan of the 19th Century Antonio Carlini, Metamorfosi della direzione bandistica in Italia dall'Ottocento a Toscanini Great Composer-Conductors Maria Teresa Arfini, Felix Mendelssohn direttore d'orchestra Gesine Schroder, The Historical Theory of Rhythm as Instruction for Conducting or How Liszt Performed his Symphonic Poems Mariateresa Dellaborra, Alessandro Rolla direttore d'orchestra del Regio Teatro alla Scala Elisa Grossato, Dal virtuosismo strumentale alla direzione di Aida: poliedricita artistica di Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889), un direttore d'orchestra impeciato di quartettismo Performance and Musical Interpretation Remy Campos, La repetition d'orchestre: d'un objet historique inedit a de nouvelles pratiques musicales Fabrizio Ammetto, Elementos de concertacion en los conciertos para organo y orquesta de Gaetano Valeri Paola Cannas, Sonata Forms in Performance Biographies Index of Names

  • Edited by Roberto Illiano
  • Edited by Michela NiccolaI