5 Heliconische Musen-Lust: Opera at the Württemberg Court

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables viii
4. Preface ix
5. Abbreviations xii
6. Notes on Sources xvi
7. Introduction: John Sigismond Cousser and his ‘Commonplace Book’ 1
8. 1 Hungarian Beginnings and the Adoption of French Musical Style 9
9. 2 Kapellmeister at the Wolfenbüttel Court and Braunschweig Opera House 28
10. 3 Ariadne to Porus: Cousser’s Braunschweig Operas 46
11. 4 ‘The incomparable director’ in Hamburg, Nuremberg and Augsburg 65
12. 5 Heliconische Musen-Lust: Opera at the Württemberg Court 80
13. 6 ‘Il Paradiso terrestre’? Cousser in London 97
14. 7 ‘Fortune not Blind’: Music for Dublin Castle 120
15. 8 ‘Our Concert’: A Musician at Home 145
16. 9 Cousser’s ‘collection of fine musick’ and the Practicalities of Musical Exchange 162
17. Appendix 1: Summary of the Contents of Cousser’s ‘Commonplace Book’ 183
18. Appendix 2: Cousser’s Address Book 203
19. Appendix 3: Cousser’s Books of Cantatas, Madrigals, Duets and Serenatas 285
20. Appendix 4: Cousser’s Inventory of Ouverture Incipits 308
21. Appendix 5: Transcription of Cousser’s Notes for his 1716 Trip to London and the Continent 321
22. Bibliography 329
23. Index 352