Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-century Vienna
Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-century Vienna Janet K. For a period of some twenty-five years, encompassing the end of the reign of Emperor Leopold I and that of his elder son, Joseph I,…
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Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-century Vienna
Janet K. For a period of some twenty-five years, encompassing the end of the reign of Emperor Leopold I and that of his elder son, Joseph I, the court's emphasis on piety and music meshed perfectly with the musical practices of Viennese convents. Page explores the interaction of music and piety, court and church, as seen through the relationship between the Habsburg court and Vienna's convents.
Identifying and discussing many musical works performed in convents, including oratorios, plays with music, feste teatrali, sepolcri, and other church music, Page reveals a golden age of convent music in Vienna and sheds light on the convents' This mutually beneficial association disintegrated during the eighteenth century, and the changing relationship of court and convents reveals something of the complex connections among the Habsburg court, the Roman Catholic Church, and Viennese society.