Over / zur Nieden Operatic Pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe

Contexts, Materials and Aesthetics
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-8394-4885-4
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 798 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften

In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer's abilities proved the best recipe for fulfilling the expectations of audiences. Known as 'pasticcios' since the 18th-century, these operas have long been considered inferior patchwork. The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Over, Berthold

zur Nieden, Gesa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

zur Nieden, Gesa
Gesa zur Nieden is a professor of musicology at Universität Greifswald, with research interests in 18th-century music theatre, the reception of Richard Wagner since 1945, and music and memory in pluralistic social contexts. After completing her PhD in Paris and Bochum, she worked as a professor in Mainz and Hannover. Since 2010 she has co-led three international research projects: two on the mobility of early modern musicians and one on 18th-century operatic pasticcios.

Over, Berthold
Berthold Over is a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London (2023-2024) and works as a research associate at Zentrum für Telemann-Pflege und -Forschung in Magdeburg. Between 2009 and 2021 he took part in international research projects at the universities of Greifswald and Mainz investigating the 18th-century pasticcio, the mobility and migration of music and musicians in the 18th century, and the Roman cantata of Händel's time. He has discovered previously unknown autographs by Vivaldi, Händel, and Mahler.

Berthold Over (PhD), born in 1964, is a researcher in the project PASTICCIO. Ways of Arranging Attractive Operas at Greifswald University. He previously worked and taught at Mainz University where he was member of projects on musical mobility and migration as well as on Roman cantatas in Handel's times. His research focuses mainly on 17th- and 18th-century music as evident from numerous publications.
Gesa zur Nieden (Prof. Dr.), born in 1978, teaches musicology at the University of Greifswald and at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Her research and publications focus on the early modern musicians mobility, on spaces and buildings for music, on intermedial dimensions of music and on the reception of Wagner after 1945.