Music in Southwest German Courts
Monday, November 2, 2015
After sharing an announcement last week about a conference on court music in Dresden, we’d like to invite you on a journey south and take a look at Südwestdeutsche Hofmusik - Music in Southwest German Courts. The goal of this project, which started in 2006 and is funded by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, is to “comprehensively collect and process archival and musical sources on the social and institutional history of court music” in the region.
The project’s website www.hof-musik.de offers an overview of court musicians, the residences, and instrument building in the eighteenth century. The musical sources are documented in a database.
Numerous publications have already come out on topics such as the orchestra at the Mannheim court and court opera in Schwetzingen (just west of Heidelberg) as well as dozens of music editions by composers including Christian Cannabich, Wilhelm Cramer, Ignaz Holzbauer, and Carl Stamitz. Some editions have been published by Carus but most are available directly from the project.
In addition, results of the project are being presented in lectures and concerts.
Image: Mannheim’s baroque palace. Photo by Stefanie Eichler via Wikimedia Commons.
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