Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editorial 2
3. Content 5
4. Preface 9
5. Roads “which are commonly wonderful for the musicians” – Early Modern Times Musicians’ Mobility and Migration 11
6. Between Collective Biography and Biography: Cultural-Historical Approaches to Musicians’ Migrations in the Early Modern Age
7. Migration and Biography The Case of Agostino Steffani 35
8. “try it elsewhere [...]” – Konrad Hagius and Musician’s Mobility in Early Modern Times in Light of Local and Regional Profile 51
9. Competition at the Catholic Court of Munich Italian Musicians and Family Networks 73
10. From Munich to ‘Foreign’ Lands and Back Again Relocation of the Munich Court and Migration of Musicians (c. 1690-1715) 91
11. Migratory and Traveling Musicians at the Polish Royal Courts in the 17^th Century The Case of Kaspar Förster the Younger 135
12. Foreign Musicians at the Polish Court in the Eighteenth Century The Case of Pietro Mira 151
13. Luka Sorgo – a Nobleman and Composer from Dubrovnik 171
14. MUSICI and MusMig Continuities and Discontinuities 185
15. Sources of Musicians’ Migrations Between Court and City
16. Musical Travels Sources of Musicians’ Tours and Migrations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century 207
17. “… und bißhero mein Glück in der Welt zu suchen …” – Notes on the Biography of Jonas Friederich Boenicke 227
18. The Russian Experience The Example of Filippo Balatri 241
19. Soloists of the Opera Productions in Brno, Holešov, Kroměříž and Vyškov Italian Opera Singers in Moravian Sources c. 1720-1740 (Part I) 255
20. Vienna Kärntnertortheater Singers in the Letters from Georg Adam Hoffmann to Count Johann Adam von Questenberg Italian Opera Singers in Moravian Sources c. 1720-1740 (Part II) 275
21. Dissemination and Transfer of Music and Music Theory Between Copies, Adaptations and References
22. Estienne Roger’s Foreign Composers 295
23. From “Sonate a quattro” to “Concertos in Seven Parts” The Acclimatization of Two Compositions by Francesco Scarlatti 311
24. Spread of Italian Libretti Maria Clementina Sobieska Stuart – a Patron of Roman Operas 323
25. Migrations of Musical Repertoire The Attems Music Collection from Around 1744 341
26. The Case of Juraj Križanić (1619-1683?) – His Texts on Music. From Artefacts to Cultural Study (Croatian Writers on Music and The Transfer of Ideas in Their New Environments) 379
27. People and Places in a (Music) Source. A Case Study of Giuseppe Michele Stratico and His Theoretical Treatises (Croatian Writers on Music and Transfer of Ideas in Their New Environments) 389
28. List of Contributors 403
29. Index of Persons 409
30. Index of Places 425