Thursday, 19 May 2016
Castle Leopoldskron
Reception
18:00–18:30
Opening Speeches
18:30–19:00
Clare Shine, Salzburg Global Seminar, vice president
Matthias J. Pernerstorfer, Don Juan Archiv Wien, director
Sarah Wedl-Wilson, University Mozarteum, Salzburg, vice rector
Hans Ernst Weidinger, Don Juan Archiv Wien
Tatjana Marković, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Don Juan Archiv Wien
Key Lecture
19:00–19:30
Michael Hüttler, Don Juan Archiv Wien
Joseph (Giuseppe) Friebert’s Das Serail in historical coordinates
19:30–20:30 Concert
with introductory words by Josef Wallnig
Universität Mozarteum Salzburg/Mozart Opera Studies Institute
Chosen music numbers from:
J. Friebert: Das Serail (1778)
W. A. Mozart: Zaide (1780), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782)
Friday, 20 May 2016
Castle Frohnburg
10:00-11:15
Chair: Reinhard Eisendle
Adeline Mueller, Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts)
“Lebendige Marionetten”: The Berner and Sebastiani children’s troupes and their Singspiels
Bärbel Rudin, Universität Dortmund
„Und wanns pascht, so bleibts dabey“: Frieberts Serail im theaterhistorischen Fadenkreuz
11:15–11:45 Coffee break
11:45–13:00
Chair: Matthias J. Pernerstorfer
Käthe Springer-Dissmann, Don Juan Archiv Wien
Joseph Maria Graf Thun-Hohenstein: Fürstbischof von Passau und Begründer von Joseph Frieberts Karriere als Hofkapellmeister in Passau
Markus Eberhardt, Consortium Musicum Passau
Die Passauer Hof- und Dommusik unter Joseph Friebert (1763–1795)
13:00–15:00 Lunch break
15:00–16:15
Chair: Adeline Mueller
Julia Ackermann, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Opéra-comique-Vorlagen im süddeutschen Singspiel der 1770er Jahre –
Joseph Frieberts Nanerl bey Hof nach Charles Simon Favarts Ninette à la Cour
Christian Moritz-Bauer, Universität Wien
Zayre von Voltaire und Michael Haydn – eine philosophisch-musikalische Begegnung im Zeitalter der Aufklärung
16:15–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–17:45
Chair: Michael Hüttler
Peter Stachel, IKT, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Staging Turkish delights and fears. The seraglio as characteristic place of Orientalism on the stage
Martin Nedbal, University of Kansas
Censoring the harem: “Handkerchief moments” in eighteenth-century Viennese operas
Saturday, 21 May 2016
Castle Frohnburg
10:00–11:15
Chair: Jen-yen Chen
Tatjana Marković, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Das Serail (ca. 1778) by Joseph Friebert: Music exoticism and gender (self)representation
Adrian Kuhl, Universität Heidelberg
Nationale Zeichnung – Die Figurendarstellung in Das Serail von Franz Joseph
Sebastiani und Joseph Friebert
11:15–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:45
Chair: Tatjana Marković
Walter Kreyszig, Department of Music, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Zentrum für Kanada-Studien, Universität Wien
Joseph Friebert’s teutsche Operette Das Serail (ca. 1778) in the context of eighteenth-century organology: On the Klangfarbe as a means of text related dramaturgy in the linking of compositional practice and instrumentation, with special reference to the wind instruments
Jen-yen Chen, Graduate Institute of Musicology, 國立臺灣大學 (National Taiwan University, Taipei)
Europe’s vision of the “Far” East and the voice of the Chinese Other: Dialogue and representation in Metastasio’s L’eroe cinese and Ji Junxiang’s Zhaoshi gu’er
12:45–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–15:45
Chair: Hans Ernst Weidinger
Mariateresa Dellaborra, Conservatorio di Musica “G. Nicolini”, Piacenza
Joseph Friebert e Giuseppe Bonno: un rapporto didattico e stilistico
Reinhard Eisendle, Don Juan Archiv Wien
Das Unerwartete, hier wird’s Ereignis. Zur Dramaturgie von Joseph Frieberts Singspiel Das Serail im Kontext des zeitgenössischen deutschen Dramas
Hans-Peter Kellner, Don Juan Archiv
E³ ̶ Eine dramaturgische Betrachtung der Entführungsgeschichte(n)
16:00–16:30
Chair: Hans Ernst Weidinger
Oswald Panagl, Universität Salzburg
Die Welt als Wille zur Vorstellung. Salzburger Dramaturgie im Lichte der Festspielgründer – Schloss Leopoldskron als kreatives Milieu
Closing remarks
16:30–17:00
Saturday, 21 May 2016
Universität Mozarteum, „Solitär“
18:00 Concert
with introductory words by Josef Wallnig
University Mozarteum Salzburg/Mozart Opera Studies Institute
„Schlafe ruhig” (Joseph Friebert, Das Serail) oder „Ruhe sanft” (W. A. Mozart, Zaide)
Musikalische Anmerkungen zu den Türkenopern/Singspielen beider Komponisten
Don Juan Archiv Wien, as the tenant of the only existing copy of the manuscript of newly-discovered Singspiel Das Serail (1778) by Joseph Friebert (1724, Gnadendorf, Niederösterreich–1799, Passau), in cooperation with University Mozarteum Salzburg/ Mozart Opera Studies Institute and Salzburg Global Seminar invites you to attend the International Interdisciplinary Symposium on May 19–21, 2016, at the Castle Frohnburg in Salzburg, Austria. In the framework of the symposium, the concert of the Mozart Opera Studies Institute will be held at the Leopoldskron Castle in Salzburg on May 19, 2016.
The focus of the consideration is Josef Friebert and his life and work in the wider context of his time. Having received his education in music at the Melk Abbey (1743–1745), Friebert moved to Vienna and continued studying with Giuseppe (Joseph) Bonno. He first became a successful tenor in the 1750s, with the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck (Le cinesi, 1754; La danza, 1755) and from 1755 to 1764 he was engaged as a singer at the Vienna Burgtheater and the Kärntnertortheater. As an influential Hofkapellmeister at the prince archbishop’s court in Passau (1763–1796), Friebert was also a composer. His career as a performer is mainly known through to his engagements as a singer and his contributions to the Passau’s musical life, which include his stage works (six lost Italian operas performed between 1764 and1774: Angelica e Medoro, Dafne vendicata, Il componimento, Il natale di Giove, La Galatea and La Zenobia, in part obviously after libretti by Pietro Metastasio) and the 1789 German-language premieres of W. A. Mozart’s operas Le nozze di Figaro (1786) and Don Giovanni (1787). Friebert also composed Singspiele, although most probably not for the Passau stage. However, except for his vocal arrangement of Joseph Haydn’s instrumental Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (1787), Friebert’s compositional output remained almost unknown, his numerous works lost.
With the discovery of the only existing eighteenth-century manuscripts-copies of his three Singspiele – Das Serail (c. 1778), as well as Nanerl bey Hof (c. 1774) and partly Adelstan und Röschen (c. 1774), all three in the possession of the Don Juan Archiv Wien – it is possible to open an important chapter in the history of Austrian/Southern German music, concerning the production, performance and perception of these compositions; Friebert’s activities and his opus; performance history in his time and the perception of his Singspiele in the context of musical life in Vienna, Passau and elsewhere. As the compositional and performance practice were closely related, with composers writing music for certain singers, the activities of itinerant music troupes (journeys, repertoire, members) and their directors are especially recommended as a research topic. Friebert’s Singspiel Das Serail was a model for Mozart’s early stage works in the German language (Zaide, 1780; Die Entführung aus dem Serail, 1782). Stage works of these composers can also be (re)considered in the context of both ideological (philosophical and aesthetical treatises, essays and criticism) and technical (compositional procedures and musical means, mainly defined by stylistic topoi) models of semiotically defined music discourse.
On the broad basis of the defined thematic circles, the following subjects, formulated from the focus to the context, are welcome:
1) Biographical coordinates:
* the life and work of Joseph Friebert in the light of newly accomplished archival research;
* the family history, especially the activities of his brother Carl Friebert;
2) Singer and conductor:
* Friebert’s contribution to the musical life of Vienna and Passau, and the perception of his work as a singer and a Hofkapellmeister and conductor;
* mapping music theatre life in the second half of the eighteenth century for the cities related to Friebert’s studies and professional activities (Melk; Burgtheater and the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna; Passau);
* itinerant music theatre troupes (repertoire, journeys, members-singers, directors);
3) Composer:
* reconstruction of the historical context based on the results of recent archival research, which should provide a correction of the incomplete or inaccurate data about Friebert’s Singspiele in literature (list and dating of works, performance history);
Analysis of libretto and music; performance history (reconstruction of known or possible performances in Passau, Mainz, Erlangen, Nuremberg, Wels and so on); children’s itinerant theatre troupes led by Franz Joseph Sebastiani and Felix Berner; perception of the stage work;
1) Libretto studies:
* comparison and study of three versions of the libretto text: Das Serail. Oder: Die unvermuthete Zusammenkunft in der Sclaverey zwischen Vater, Tochter und Sohn (Bozen 1778) by Franz Joseph Sebastiani, Arien welche gesungen werden in der Opera genannt Das Seraile, in zwey Aufzügen aufgeführt von den jungen Schauspielern unter der Direction des Herrn Felix Berner. Die Musik ist von Herrn Fribert, s. l. [Nürnberg] 1778), and the version provided in the manuscript copy from 1779;
* sources of the plot: the story of abducted Christian European girls, their stay in a harem and their liberation through different embodiments of deus ex machina, leading always to a conventional happy ending, inspired numerous eighteenth-century librettists and composers to create their own versions in different languages; these constructed imaginative depiction of „Oriental“ were immensely popular (Alain René Lesage and d’Orneval, Voltaire and, among others, Michael Haydn, Louis Dancourt and C. W. Gluck; Carl Frieberth and Joseph Haydn; J. A. Schachtner and W. A. Mozart, to name only some of the librettists and composers); the immense popularity of these constructed, imaginative “Oriental” depictions;
* language and dramaturgy of libretto, political context, constructed image of the Orient, characterization of personage;
* analysis of conventional topoi: abduction to serail, liberation from the harem, the category of the unexpected in the eighteenth-century theatre narrative (especially unexpected encounters), hint of incest, merciful rulers and others.
2) Music research:
* musical dramaturgy, conventional style topoi and specific elements, musical image of the Orient, “authentic” Austrian self-representation, musical characterization of the protagonists, instrumentation, performance practice of the work;
* instrumentation: specific instrumental ensemble from Friebert’s Singspiel Das Serail was used earlier by Haydn and Mozart in their early symphonies of the 1750s and 1760s, as well as by other composers;
* comparative analysis of Friebert’s Das Serail with W. A. Mozart’s Singspiele Zaide (1780), Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782) as well as with the opera Le nozze di Figaro (1786);
* critical edition of an eighteenth-century stage work in the light of the edition of Friebert’s Singspiel in preparation: methodological questions.
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Papers should be based on original research and should not have already been presented elsewhere. Paper presentation should not extent beyond thirty minutes, including audio and audio-visual materials, and will be followed by a ten-minute discussion. The official languages of the symposium are German, English and Italian.
Musicologists, theatre and literary scholars as well as linguists are encouraged to submit proposals of up to 200 words to the e-mail address <office(at)donjuanarchiv(dot)at>. Proposals for panel presentations are also welcome.
The deadline for submission of all proposals is January 31, 2016.
The Program Committee will inform the authors of submissions about their decision by February 25. The participants, whose papers are chosen, by taking part in the conference, assume the obligation of submitting their papers in the language of the presentation by September 30, 2016 in accordance to the style sheet of the Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag.
Location
Conference venue. The seventeenth-century Frohnburg castle, known as a location featured in the movie The Sound of Music, is a ten-minute bus ride on public transport from the city center.
Concert venue. The palace Leopoldskron is only a short walk from the old town of Salzburg.
Programme Committee
Reinhard Eisendle
Michael Hüttler
Tatjana Marković
Hans Ernst Weidinger
Organisational Committee
Matthias Pernerstorfer
Suna Suner
Josef Wallnig
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