The Rost Manuscript of Seventeenth-Century Chamber Music: A Thematic Catalog

David Hunter; M. Alexandra Eddy

doi:10.2307/941962

Queen Christina of Sweden as a Patron of Music in Rome in the Mid-Seventeenth Century

The Music Room in Early Modern France and Italy ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197265055.003.0016 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

TESSA MURDOCH

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Chamber Music ◽

Musical Instruments ◽

Keen Interest ◽

Commissioned Works ◽

Queen Christina Of Sweden

Following her abdication, Queen Christina of Sweden took up residence in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome from 1655. She had already developed a keen interest in music, gained from tuition from a French dancing master, and playing the star role in the ballet The Captured Cupid in honour of her mother's birthday in 1649. Christina's arrival in Rome was marked by performances in her honour in the Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Pamphili of specially commissioned works by contemporary composers Marco Marazzoli and A.F. Tenaglia, and by her favourite Giacomo Carissimi. Inspired by the chamber music proportions of the cappella of the Collegio Germanico, many of Carissimi's secular arias were composed for his royal Swedish patron. After two years in France, Christina returned to Rome, where she took up residence in the Palazzo Riario on the Janiculum. Inventories record her musical instruments and describe the contents of the Great Hall in which concerts were held.

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‘Obtained by peculiar favour, & much difficulty of the Singer’: Vincenzo Albrici and the Function of Charles II's Italian Ensemble at the English Restoration Court

Journal of the Royal Musical Association ◽

10.1080/02690403.2018.1507116 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 143 (2) ◽

pp. 325-359

Author(s):

Ester Lebedinski

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Chamber Music ◽

Cultural Exchange ◽

English Court ◽

English Restoration ◽

French Court ◽

Italian Music

AbstractThis article discusses the function of Vincenzo Albrici and Charles II's Italian ensemble at the English Restoration court. The article cites newly discovered archival evidence to suggest that Albrici arrived at the English court in 1664 to become the leader of an exclusive ensemble performing Italian chamber music. The employment of the Italian ensemble imitated Mazarin's patronage of Italian music at the French court, arguably to rehabilitate the recently restored Stuart dynasty in the eyes of Continental courts. The article suggests that the ensemble performed chamber music privately at court, and also occasionally appeared in the queen's Catholic chapel after 1666. The recruitment of Albrici and the Italian ensemble shows that the English court participated in Continental musical fashions after the Restoration, and illustrates the complex webs of cultural exchange in mid-seventeenth-century Europe.

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From Mantua to Vienna: A New Look at the Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Suite

Journal of the Royal Musical Association ◽

10.1093/jrma/129.2.181 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 129 (2) ◽

pp. 181-219

Author(s):

Don Harrán

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Chamber Music ◽

Instrumental Music ◽

Chamber Works ◽

Dance Suite ◽

Music Literature ◽

Habsburg Court ◽

New Evidence ◽

New Look

There is a gaping hole in the instrumental chamber-music literature at the Habsburg court of Vienna in the early seventeenth century. Of the composers in the employ of Emperor Ferdinand II, Giovanni Battista Buonamente was the only one to publish instrumental chamber works; but Buonamente's origins were Mantuan and the contents of his publications reflect the influence of the sinfonie, sonatas and dances by the leading Mantuan instrumental music composer Salamone Rossi. The similarities raise various questions. How does the Mantuan-born empress Eleonora impress her musical tastes on the Viennese court? To what extent is the Mantuan exemplar operative in Viennese instrumental music, particularly dances? How do the dance works of both Rossi and Buonamente relate to the incipient suite? And what new evidence can be brought to bear on the ordering of its constituents to form a larger construct?

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