Naslov
“Die edelste und küstlerischeste aller Kunstformen”: The Committee for the Promotion of Chamber Music – A Fin-de-siècle Initiative in Zagreb
(“Die edelste und küstlerischeste aller Kunstformen”: Odbor za promicanje komorne glazbe - inicijativa u Zagrebu na prijelazu stoljeća)

Autori
Katalinić, Vjera

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Chamber Music 1850-1918

Mjesto i datum
Online ; Lucca, Italija, 10.12.2021. - 12.12.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Chamber Music, The Committee for the Advancement of Chamber Music, Zagreb
(komorna glazba, Odbor za promicanje komorne glazbe, Zagreb)

Sažetak
In the late 19th-century Zagreb various musical events took place quite regularly: the National theatre performed operas from the standard repertoire as well as national pieces ; its orchestra gave concerts of symphonic music and the school of the National Music Institute organised regular concerts of their pupils and professors. An additional and complementary organiser of the chamber concerts, founded in 1896, was the so-called Committee for the advancement of chamber music, with the task proclaimed in its title. A small intellectual circle among members of the Musikverein of various professions (an architect, two musicians, a politician, a music critic, and an engineer) answered to the demands of the audiences to invite the best international chamber ensembles, thus giving them the opportunity to hear «and to cultivate the most important compositions by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, as well as more recent pieces by Tchaikovsky, Dvořak, Smetana, Goldmark, that other cultural towns have cultivated already for some time». From the beginning of 1897 until the end of the World War i, they have organised almost one hundred concerts of famous contemporary ensembles: soloists (such as Pablo Casals, Fritz Kreisler etc.), trios (such as the Russian piano trio), quartets (such as Quartetto Triestino, Quartett Rosé), even chamber orchestras (such as Wiener Tonkünstler Orchester with Oskar Nedbal) were invited and sharpened the taste and demands of the Zagreb audiences. The paper analyses the list of invited guests, their repertoire, the reception of the audiences as well as their impact on the musical life in Zagreb during a turbulent period that ended with the disintegration of the Habsburg Monarchy.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Znanost o umjetnosti

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