Crossing confessional boundaries : the patronage of Italian sacred music in seventeenth-century Dresden
This volume examines the uneasy alliance of two confessions, Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent 17th century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars
1 online resource (xiv, 514 pages) : portrait, music
9780199850808, 9780195178319, 9780195346367, 0199850801, 0195178319, 019534636X
1086941716
Prologue : the forgotten Mäzen Johann Georg II
The advent of the Italians, 1651-56
The Italianate Hofkapelle of Johann Georg II, 1656-80
Johann Georg II and the problem of Catholicism
Piety, penitence, and praise : the Dresden textual repertoire
Roma trapiantata : the new sacred concerto in Dresden
Musica pathetica : style and affect in the Dresden concerto
Johann Georg's vision for worship
Musik im Gottesdienst : the liturgical year at the Dresden court
Epilogue : Johann Georg II remembered