Orchestral  Conducting  in  the  Nineteenth  Century

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The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of the public figure of the orchestral conductor. Like composers and performers, orchestral conductors registered the transformed concept of the ‘musical work’. Whilst the Industrial Revolution generated new types of profession, the orchestral conductor’s career emerged, as an outcome of the greater consideration that was devoted to the act of ‘performance’. 

In Orchestral  Conducting  in  the  Nineteenth  Century nineteen scholars explore historical and sociological phenomena connected to the nineteenth-century system of performance and musical production in which the orchestral conductor worked. A number of chapters investigate the musical performances of famous orchestral conductors; conducting by renowned composers (including Berlioz, Bottesini, Charpentier, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Paganini and Rolla) and orchestral treatises for military bands. 

The authors featured are: Fabrizio Ammetto, Maria Teresa Arfini, Rémy Campos, Paola Cannas, Antonio Carlini, Claudia Colombati, Mariateresa Dellaborra, Gilles Demonet, Elisa Grossato, Emmanuel Hervé, Étienne Jardin, Walter Kurt Kreyszig, Naomi Matsumoto, Michela Niccolai, Fiona M. Palmer, Rudolf Rasch, Renato Ricco, Gesine Schröder, Ruben Vernazza.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Conductors and Conducting in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Fiona M. Palmer, Conductors and Conducting in 19th-Century Britain: The Liverpool Philharmonic Society (1840-1895)

Naomi Matsumoto, Michael Costa at the Haymarket: The Establishment of the Modern Role of ‘The Director of Music’Étienne Jardin, Les chefs d’orchestre dans les concerts parisiens de 1794 à 1815

Rudolf Rasch, From Collegium musicum to City Concert: The Professionalisation of Ensemble and Orchestral Music Making in Utrecht

Historical, Aesthetic and Sociological Aspects

Renato Ricco, Virtuosismo violinistico e direzione orchestrale: rapporti storici e scissione dei ruoli

Gilles Demonet, Naissance, épanouissement et subordination du directeur musical

Claudia Colombati, La figura del direttore d’orchestra nella dimensione storico-estetica dell’Ottocento

Ruben Vernazza, Il direttore d’orchestra nel sistema produttivo del teatro d’opera italiano di fine Ottocento. Un caso eloquente: Emilio Usiglio a Firenze nel 1892

Techniques, Orchestral Dispositions, Treatises

Walter Kurt Kreyszig, Hector Berlioz’s Technique of Conducting in Theory and Practice. His Subdivision of the tactus in Le chef d’orchestre, théorie de son art and His Scores

Emmanuel Hervé, The Orchestra of the Paris Opera: A Forgotten Plan of the 19th Century

Antonio Carlini, Metamorfosi della direzione bandistica in Italia dall’Ottocento a Toscanini

Great Composer-Conductors

Maria Teresa Arfini, Felix Mendelssohn direttore d’orchestra

Gesine Schröder, The Historical Theory of Rhythm as Instruction for Conducting or How Liszt Performed his Symphonic Poems

Mariateresa Dellaborra, Alessandro Rolla direttore d’orchestra del Regio Teatro alla Scala

Elisa Grossato, Dal virtuosismo strumentale alla direzione di Aida: poliedricità artistica di Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889), un direttore d’orchestra «impeciato di quartettismo»

Performance and Musical Interpretation

Rémy Campos, La répétition d’orchestre: d’un objet historique inédit à de nouvelles pratiques musicales

Fabrizio Ammetto, Elementos de concertación en los conciertos para órgano y orquesta de Gaetano Valeri

Paola Cannas, Sonata Forms in Performance

Biographies

Index of Names