Event overview
Russia and the Musical World 牛牛资源 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 鈥� singers, impresarios, touring troupes, conductors, translators, writers, composers 鈥� 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 (牛牛资源) t.alexander@gold.ac.uk
Rutger Helmers (University of Amsterdam) r.m.helmers@uva.nl
Papers and round tables:
Mobility, cosmopolitanism and social connections:
鈥楴. P. Sheremetev and Hyvart: an Early Case of International Networking in Russian Music Theatre鈥�
鈥楾he Russian court and aristocracy as patrons and mediators for visiting musicians in the mid-nineteenth century鈥�
鈥楻ussia and composers鈥� migration in the nineteenth century鈥�
Staging Russian opera abroad: A Life for the Tsar in Milan, 1874
鈥樷�淪lavonic culture鈥� or 鈥渇oreign Barbarism鈥�? Glinka鈥檚 A life for the Tsar in Milan (1874)鈥�
鈥楢 hypothesis about the purposes of the first production of a Russian opea in Italy鈥�
Music and the Franco-Russian Alliance:
鈥楾he Republican nation embraces alterity: The press of Third Republic France at the service of Franco-Russian friendship and music, October 1893鈥�
鈥極negin in Nice and the Age of Exhaustion鈥�
Institutional networks:
鈥楯ohn Field and the nineteenth-century dissemination of the Russian piano nocturne鈥�
鈥楾he St Petersburg Philharmonic Society: The mechanism of cultural transfer鈥�
鈥楩rom Greeks to Greece through Russia: Queen Olga of the Hellenes, the Byzantine chant and Europe in mid-19th-century Athens鈥�
鈥楾chaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov鈥檚 harmony treatise and the German roots at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.鈥�
Early twentieth-century British-Russian exchange:
鈥楨lgar in the Siloti Concerts鈥�
鈥楽.V. Rachmaninoff鈥檚 debut in London: Materials for a biographic episode鈥�
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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