Program
First session (10h-12h)
INTRODUCTION
- Barbara Nestola (CESR - CMBV)
- Matteo Giannelli (Rome university Tor Vergata - CMBV)
MODerator
- Barbara Nestola (CESR - CMBV)
speakers
- Edward Corp
Musicians and Music at the Stuart Court in Exile
Keynote - Denis Herlin (IReMus)
Matteo Giannelli (Rome university Tor Vergata - CMBV)
"I copied Italian airs": the musical hand, the handwriting and the production of David Nairne, that is to say the copyist Z
Second session (14h-16h30)
MODerator
- Thomas Leconte (CESR - CMBV)
speakers
- Luigi Collarile (Bern University of the Arts)
The circulation of Italian music in France at the end of the Great Century: the cases of Giacomo Carissimi and Giovanni Legrenzi - Barbara Nestola (CESR - CMBV)
Innocenzo Fede, from composer to organiser : writing processes and arrangements in the manuscripts of the Stuart Collection - Teresa Maria Gialdroni (Rome university Tor Vergata)
Reception of the Italian cantata through the “Stuart Manuscripts” of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (H 659, 1-7)
Aware of the different places where French baroque music was created and performed, the CMBV has devoted a study day to the music played at the court of the Stuarts in France. They were active proponents of Italian and Italianate music towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV.
Ousted from the English throne after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Stuarts fled to France where Louis XIV housed them in the royal château at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Despite failed attempts to regain power back home, James II and his wife Mary of Modena clung determinedly to their status as legitimate de jure monarchs. As such, although in exile with a limited retinue and limited finances, they used music as a way of asserting and consolidating their royal role. A wide range of music was performed, as evidenced by their collection of airs, cantata, motets and sonatas, and the court at Saint-Germain-en-Laye became a centre for the promotion and dissemination of the Italian style towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV.
By taking a fresh look at these musical sources, the study day hopes to come up with new avenues of research and shed more light on the music played at the Stuarts’ court in France.
