Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Vienna (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107039087)

Janet K. Page explores the interaction of music and piety, court and church, as seen through the relationship between the Habsburg court and Vienna's convents. For a period of some twenty-five years, encompassing the end of the reign of Emperor Leopold I and that of his elder son, Joseph I, the court's emphasis on piety and music meshed perfectly with the musical practices of Viennese convents. This mutually beneficial association disintegrated during the eighteenth century, and the changing relationship of court and convents reveals something of the complex connections among the Habsburg court, the Roman Catholic Church, and Viennese society. Identifying and discussing many musical works performed in convents, including oratorios, plays with music, feste teatrali, sepolcri, and other church music, Page reveals a golden age of convent music in Vienna and sheds light on the convents' surprising engagement with contemporary politics.

Author: Janet K. Page
ISBN-10: 1107039088
ISBN-13: 9781107039087
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2014
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.00w x 0.80d