Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag: 74 books
L'Etruria fortunata
Cantata celebrativa in onore del Granduca di Toscana Pietro Leopoldo d'Asburgo-Lorena. Messa in musica di Charles Antoine Campion (1720-1788). Facsimile della partitura autografa
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Il progetto"L'Etruria fortunata" è il primo risultato di una cooperazione in corso tra enti di paesi diversi e con differenti nature istituzionali, per la creazione di un virtuoso circuito storico-musicale che, partendo dallo studio della documentazione, arrivi all'esecuzione e, come in questo caso,...
Anton Stadler: Wirken und Lebensumfeld des "Mozart-Klarinettisten"
Fakten, Daten und Hypothesen zu seiner Biographie
Language: German
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Der Wiener Klarinettist Anton Paul Stadler (1753–1812) ist den meisten Musikliebhabern nur im Kontext mit Mozarts singulären Klarinettenwerken ein Begriff. Wer aber war dieser ehemals berühmte, den Komponisten inspirierende und diesem freundschaftlich verbundene Virtuose und Freimaurerbruder? Geboren...
Jelena Obraszowa
Eine russische Opernlegende
Language: German
Release Date: September 20, 2018
"In welcher Erscheinung die Obraszowa auch vor uns tritt, wir werden sofort zwei Gegensätze wahrnehmen, zwischen denen sich ihre Persönlichkeit bewegt. Da ist einmal ihr pulsierendes Temperament, ihr mit "brennender" Energetik aufgeladenes menschliches und künstlerisches Wesen -...
by Agnes Selby
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Constanze, the wife of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, was not the foolish and self-interested individual of popular opinion, much of which is based on the views of Mozart's father, who believed that his son had chosen an inappropriate partner. This strong-minded woman was, however, to be of critical support...
Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. III
Images of the Harem in Literature and Theatre.
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
On 3 May 1810 George Gordon, Lord Byron, swam like the mythic Leander from Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont to Abydos on the Asian shore. The hero of his poem "Don Juan" has lived in “feminine disguise” in the sultan's harem for more than a century. To commemorate Byron's Don Juan, the...
Neo-Aesthetic Theory
Complexity and Complicity Must Be Defended
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A permanent state of emergency: a neo-aesthetic view on contemporary politics and art Miško Šuvaković describes his experience of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a "permanent state of emergency". The author explores this perspective in relation to the politics of time (dialectic...
Living by the Coins
Roman Life in the Light of Coin Finds and Archaeology within a Residential Quarter of Carnuntum
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
After a forty-year gap following the excavations of the 1950s (and even earlier), large archaeological campaigns have been carried out since the 1990s in a quarter (also known as "Spaziergarten", "insula VI"and "Open-Air Museum") of the former "civilian" Roman town of Carnuntum. These new excavations...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
How can we define the referential systems by which music is determined and through which music gets its own sense and meaning? What is the relation between these systems? Such questions are of particular weight in relation to current music practices, characterized by a great many of analytical procedures...
The Taming of the Turk
Ottomans on the Danish Stage 1596-1896
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
For centuries the figure of ‘the Turk’ spread fascination and fear - in the theatre of war and on the theatrical stage. On the one hand, ‘the Turk’ represented a spectacular dimension, an imaginary world of pirates, sultans and odalisques; on the other hand, he stood for the actual Ottoman...
Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II
The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730-1839)
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Sultan Mahmud II (r.1730-1839), the second volume of Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, explores the relationship between Western playwrights, composers and visual artists of the eighteenth-century and Turkish-Ottoman culture, as well as the interest...
The Life and Works of Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770)
Part I: A Documentary Biography. Part II: Catalogue of Works and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770) has been heralded as one of the first composers of keyboard music to display 'distinctly Austrian traits'. In light of both the extent and quality of his œuvre, he was undoubtedly the single most important composer of keyboard music in Vienna in the first half of the eighteenth...
Music Preferred
Essays in Musicology, Cultural History and Analysis in Honour of Harry White
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
The contributions to this Festschrift, honouring the distinguished Irish musicologist Harry White on his sixtieth birthday, have wide repercussions and span a broad timeframe. But for all its variety, this volume is built around two axes: on the one hand, attention is focussed on the history of music...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
This volume is dedicated to "Serenata and Festa Teatrale in 18th Century Europe", especially to the production of this music-dramatic genre at the courts on the Iberian Peninsula, in Italy, and the Holy Roman Empire where it was an integral part of court ceremonials and a privileged ritual...
Achtung Satire!
Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 03/2017
Language: German
Release Date: May 31, 2017
"Humor ist der Knopf, der verhindert, dass uns der Kragen platzt", heißt es bei Joachim Ringelnatz. Zum Dampfablassen eignet sich dabei besonders die humoristische Form der Satire, die den menschlichen Verfehlungen sämtlicher Lebensbereiche den Spiegel vorhält. Auch in der Musikwelt begegnet sie uns,...