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Margravine Wilhelmina's theater in Bayreuth
Websites
Margravine Wilhelmina's theater in Bayreuth
http://www.bayreuth wilhelmine.de/englisch/opera/index.htm
Facsimile
First edition (1757) of Anna Bon's Sei sonate per il cembalo IMSLP
Recordings
Example 10.1: Anna Bon, Keyboard Sonata No. 5 in B minor, Adagio non molto, Paule van Parys, harpsichord, on Youtube; Barbara Harbach, harpsichord, on iTunes
Example 10.2: Haydn, Symphony "Le Matin," Freiburg Baroque Orchestra on Youtube
Also see "Audio and Video Recordings to Accompany Anthology" (click on left)
I know of no recording of Gluck's song "Je n'aimais pas le tabac beaucoup," used by Haydn in the first movement of the Symphony "Le Soir." I have uploaded a vocal score (see link at the bottom of this page). If a soprano were to record this song (to the accompaniment of keyboard or—better—pizzicato strings) and put it on Youtube, I and other students of eighteenth-century music would be most grateful.
Margravine Wilhelmina of Bayreuth, portrayed by Antoine Pesne with a spaniel, a book about friendship, and a musical manuscript. Her cloak, decorated with scallop shells (the emblem of St. James of Compostela), identifies her as a pilgrim. She evidently saw herself on a "pilgrimage to Cythera" of the kind that Watteau depicted so beautifully--a spiritual and intellectual journey in search of love, pleasure, and enlightenment.
Videos
A brief introduction to Wilhelmina's theater in Bayreuth, on Youtube
Haydn, Divertimento in D Major for baryton trio (baryton, viola, cello), written by Haydn to celebrate the birthday of Prince Nicolaus Esterházy, Adagio, on Youtube
Haydn, Symphony No. 45, "Farewell," Les Siècles, Xavier Roth, conductor, on Youtube
Reading
Butler, Margaret R. “Italian Opera in the Eighteenth Century,” The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music, Simon Keefe, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 250–51, 262–64 Worldcat
The Cambridge Companion to Haydn, ed. Caryl Clark (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Worldcat
Engaging Haydn: Culture, Context, and Criticism, ed. Mary Hunter and Richard Will (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) Worldcat
In the Drottningholm court theater, near Stockholm, during the intermission of a performance of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito on 24 August 2013. The hornists play natural horns; all the crooks necessary for a performance of Mozart's opera hang from their music stands.
Geiringer, Karl. Haydn: A Creative Life in Music, 3rd ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982) Worldcat
Haydn Studies, ed. W. Dean Sutcliffe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) Worldcat
Heartz, Daniel. Haydn, Mozart, and the Viennese School, 1740–1780 (New York: Norton, 1995)
Heartz, Daniel. Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720–1780 (New York: Norton, 2003), 494–594 Worldcat
The court theater in Stuttgart: perspective section and plan, from Diderot's Encyclopédie
Jones, David Wyn. The Life of Haydn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) Worldcat
Landon, H. C. Robbins. Haydn: Chronicle and Works. Vol. 2: Haydn at Eszterháza, 1766–1790 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978) Worldcat
Music at German Courts, 1715–1760: Changing Artistic Priorities, ed. Samantha Owens et al. (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2011) Worldcat
Polzonetti, Pierpaolo. Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2011), 29–106 Worldcat
The Rittersaal in the Electoral Palace in Mannheim, as rebuilt after its destruction during the Second World War. Here the Mannheim orchestra, under the direction of Johann Stamitz, entertained Elector Carl Theodor and his guests.
Rice, John A. "Sarti's Giulio Sabino, Haydn's Armida, and the Arrival of Opera Seria at Esterháza," Haydn Yearbook 15 (1984), 181–98 academia.edu
Sisman, Elaine. "Haydn's Solar Poetics: The Tageszeiten Symphonies and Enlightenment Knowledge," Journal of the American Musicological Society 66 (2013), 5–102 JSTOR
Somfai, László. "Haydn at the Esterházy Court," in The Classical Era: From the 1740s to the End of the 18th Century, ed. Neal Zaslaw (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989), 268–92 Worldcat
Taruskin, Richard. The Oxford History of Western Music, vol. 2: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 504–7, 515–41 Worldcat
The great hall at the Esterházy palace in Eisenstadt. Although today it serves as a concert hall, Haydn and his contemporaries would have probably considered it more appropriate for large balls (such as this one in Vienna)
Webster. James. Haydn's “Farewell” Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) Worldcat
Will, Richard. The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Worldcat
Wolf, Eugene K. “The Mannheim Court,” in The Classical Era: From the 1740s to the End of the 18th Century, ed. Neal Zaslaw (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989), 213–39 Worldcat
Wolf, Eugene K. The Symphonies of Johann Stamitz: A Study in the Formation of the Classic Style (Utrecht: Bohn, 1981) Worldcat
Wolf, Jean K. “Johann Stamitz,” The Eighteenth-Century Symphony, ed. Mary Sue Morrow and Bathia Churgin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012), 353–62 Worldcat
Eszterháza
Study Guide
Names, titles, and terms introduced in chapter 10
Carl Theodor
Johann Stamitz
Rittersaal
Princess (later Margravine) Wilhelmina
Anna Bon
Joseph Haydn
Prince Paul Esterházy
Eisenstadt
Prince Nicolaus Esterházy
Gregor Werner
Nicola Porpora
Le matin, Le midi, Le soir
Le diable à quatre
baryton
Eszterháza
"Farewell" Symphony
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