Samantha Owens

The Well-Travelled Musician

John Sigismond Cousser and Musical Exchange in Baroque Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

John Sigismond Cousser, as performer and composer, was a pioneering figure in the musical history of the European Baroque era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 403
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781783272341
• ISBN-10: 1783272341
• Artikelnr.: 48461887

Autorenporträt

Samantha Owens

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: John Sigismond Cousser and his 'Commonplace Book' Hungarian
Beginnings and the Adoption of French Musical Style Kapellmeister at the
Wolfenbüttel Court and Braunschweig Opera House Ariadne to Porus -
Cousser's Braunschweig Operas 'The Incomparable Director' in Hamburg,
Nuremberg and Augsburg Heliconische Musen-Lust - Opera at the Württemberg
Court 'Il Paradiso terrestre'? - Cousser in London 'Fortune Not Blind' -
Music for Dublin Castle 'Our Concert' - A Musician at Home Cousser's
'Collection of Fine Musick' and the Practicalities of Musical Exchange
Appendix 1: Summary of the Contents of Cousser's 'Commonplace Book'
Appendix 2: Cousser's Address Book Appendix 3:Cousser's Books of Cantatas,
Madrigals, Duets and Serenatas Appendix 4:Cousser's Inventory of Ouverture
Incipits Appendix 5: Transcription of Cousser's Notes for his 1716 Trip to
London and the Continent