Event overview
Russia and the Musical World Study Day **NB change of venue to RHB 274**
This study day brings together scholars from around the globe to explore how and why music, musicians and musical materials moved in, through and out of Russia during the long nineteenth century. In addition to tracing the movements of people – singers, impresarios, touring troupes, conductors, translators, writers, composers – our contributors will consider the participation of nonhuman actors, such as institutions, scores, libretti, transport links and media. By raising these issues in a study day format, we aim to bring together those examining movement in different directions, and, in so doing, to draw Russianists and non-Russianists into conversation about international mobility.
Organisers:
Tamsin Alexander (Goldsmiths, University of London) t.alexander@gold.ac.uk
Rutger Helmers (University of Amsterdam) r.m.helmers@uva.nl
Papers and round tables:
Mobility, cosmopolitanism and social connections:
‘N. P. Sheremetev and Hyvart: an Early Case of International Networking in Russian Music Theatre’
‘The Russian court and aristocracy as patrons and mediators for visiting musicians in the mid-nineteenth century’
‘Russia and composers’ migration in the nineteenth century’
Staging Russian opera abroad: A Life for the Tsar in Milan, 1874
‘“Slavonic culture” or “foreign Barbarism”? Glinka’s A life for the Tsar in Milan (1874)’
‘A hypothesis about the purposes of the first production of a Russian opea in Italy’
Music and the Franco-Russian Alliance:
‘The Republican nation embraces alterity: The press of Third Republic France at the service of Franco-Russian friendship and music, October 1893’
‘Onegin in Nice and the Age of Exhaustion’
Institutional networks:
‘John Field and the nineteenth-century dissemination of the Russian piano nocturne’
‘The St Petersburg Philharmonic Society: The mechanism of cultural transfer’
‘From Greeks to Greece through Russia: Queen Olga of the Hellenes, the Byzantine chant and Europe in mid-19th-century Athens’
‘Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov’s harmony treatise and the German roots at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.’
Early twentieth-century British-Russian exchange:
‘Elgar in the Siloti Concerts’
‘S.V. Rachmaninoff’s debut in London: Materials for a biographic episode’
Roundtable discussion and wine reception
To register, please email t.alexander@gold.ac.uk by Friday 9th December.
Image: Europe in 1836
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Dec 2016 | 9:30am - 7:30pm |
Accessibility
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