Festa and Music at the Court of Marie Casimire Sobieska in Rome (1699-1714)

ISBN-13: 9783631842577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 424 str.

Jan Burzynski;Aneta Markuszewska

Opis

Polish queen Marie Casimire Sobieska, French by birth, left the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the death of her husband king John III and settled in Rome in 1699. Supported by her son, Prince Aleksander Sobieski, the queen dowager created at her Roman residence in Palazzo Zuccari one of Rome's most important opera theatres. She used music and drama to uphold her social status and political plans, satisfy her aesthetic needs, and provide entertainment for the granddaughter under her care, along with her ever more ailing son. This is the first monograph about Sobieska's music patronage. The book describes works by such eminent artists as Carlo S. Capece, Filippo Juvarra, and Domenico Scarlatti, along with the atmosphere of Rome of that time, the sociopolitical role of the festa, and the music theatre genres it employed.

Spis treści

Festa - music and politics in the early modern period - Baroque opera in Rome - Marie Casimire Sobieska and women's patronage in the early modern period - Domenico Scarlatti - Accademia dell'Arcadia and opera in Rome.

O autorze

Aneta Markuszewska, PhD, musicologist, lecturer at the Institute of Musicology, the University of Warsaw. Member of international projects and head of Polish-German project Pasticcio: Ways of Arranging Attractive Operas. Author of articles and two large monographs about 17^th-18^th-c. opera and keyboard works and women in music.