The opera orchestra in 18th- and 19th- century Europe
By: edited by Niels Martin Jensen and Franco Piperno
Series: Musical life in Europe 1600-1900; Musical life in Europe 1600-1900
Publisher: BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783830514879; 9783830514886
Subjects: Opera; Congresses; Orchestra; History
Notes: "The volumes of this series present the results of workshops that took place between 1998 to 2001 as part of the European Science Foundation's research programme Musical life in Europe 1600-1900--circulation, institutions, representation (MLE)."--Pt. 1, v. 1, p. [v].

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

English & German essays.
Table of contents: title: I, The orchestra in society. v. 1. The orchestra in nineteenth-century Italian opera houses / Franco Piperno, Antonio Rostagno; title: Das Orchester des Kärntnertortheaters in Wien im 19. Jahrhundert / Angela Pachovsky; title: Opera orchestras in Moravia and Silesia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Lucie Brázdová, Eva Vičarová, Jitka Balatková, Karel Boženek; title: Opernorchester in Ungarn im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert / Tibor Tallián; title: The orchestras of the Paris opera houses in the nineteenth century / Hervé Audéon, Damien Colas, Alessandro Di Profio; title: Opera orchestras in Georgian and early Victorian London / Rachel Cowgill, Gabriella Dideriksen.; title: I, The orchestra in society. v. 2. Die Dresdener Königliche Kapelle als Opernorchester im 19. Jahrhundert mit einem Rückblick auf das 18. Jahrhundert / Ortrun Landmann; title: Das württembergische Hoforchester im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert / Reiner Nägele; title: Das Leipziger Stadt- und Gewandhausorchester als Theaterorchester-eine Chronologie / Claudius Böhm; title: Opera orchestras in Madrid during the 18th and early 19th centuries / José Máximo Leza; title: Opera orchestras in the 18th and 19th centuries in Lisbon and Oporto / Manuel Carlos de Brito, Luísa Cymbron; title: The royal court orchestra in Stockholm 1772-1885 / Owe Ander; title: Von der Hofkapelle zum Opernorchester : eine institutionsgeschichtliche Darstellung der Königlichen Kapelle in Kopenhagen während der Zeit 1770-1874 / Niels Martin Jensen; title: Zur Geschichte der St. Petersburger Opernorchester im 18. Jahrhundert / Stefan Weiss.; title: II, The orchestra in the theatre : composers, works, and performance. "Such scientific and profound harmonies" : the Italian opera orchestra and early performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni in London / Rachel Cowgill; title: Don Giovanni and the orchestra of the Neapolitan Royal Theatres / Cesare Corsi; title: Don Giovanni as performed by the orchestra of the Teatro S. Carlos : nineteenth-century reception / Luísa Cymbron; title: Zur Erstaufführung von Mozarts Don Giovanni in Kopenhagen (1807) / Heinrich W. Schwab; title: Rossini and the orchestra of the Parisian Opéra (the Académie Royale de Musique) : the case of Guillaume Tell (1829) / M. Elisabeth C. Bartlet; title: Halévy and his contribution to the evolution of the orchestra in the mid-nineteenth century / Damien Colas; title: "Questa opere eminentemente sinfoniche e spettacolose" : Giacomo Meyerbeer's influence in Italian opera orchestras / Anna Tedesco; title: Die Königliche Schwedische Hofkapelle und die Meyerbeer-Tradition in Stockholm / Owe Ander; title: Meyerbeer's operas in nineteenth-century Prague and their impact on Prague's opera orchestras / Marta Ottlová, Milan Pospíšil; title: "Opern dieses größten Meisters der Jetztzeit" : Meyerbeer's reception on the 19th-century Hungarian opera stage / Tibor Tallián; title: Verdi's Aida and performing practice in nineteenth-century Italian opera orchestras / Antonio Rostagno; title: From the glicibarifono to the bass clarinet : a chapter in the history of orchestration in Italy / Fabrizio Della Seta; title: Szenische Effekte bei der Organisation des Klanges in Italien im 19. Jahrhundert : vom Orchester über die Blaskapelle bis zur Orgel / Antonio Carlini.