Concert Life in Haydn’s Vienna: Aspects of a Developing Musical and Social Institution

574 Pages·1989·29.386 MB·English

by  Mary Sue Morrow

CONCERT LIFE
IN HAYDN'S VIENNA:
Aspects of a Developing Musical
and Social Institution

CONCERT LIFE IN
HAYDN'S VIENNA:
Aspects of a
Developing Musical
and Social Institution
by
Mary
Sue~orrow
SOCIOLOGY OF MUSIC NO. 7
PENDRAGON PRESS
STUYVESANT, NY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Morrow, Mary Sue, 1953-
Concert life in Haydn's Vienna: aspects of a developing musical and social in
stitution by Mary Sue Morrow.
p. cm. - (Sociology of music: no. 7)
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-918728-83-5: $47.00
1. Concerts-Austria-Vienna. 2. Music-Austria-Vienna-18th century
History and criticism. 3. Music-Austria-Vienna-19th century-History and
criticism. 4. Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809. 5. Music and society. 6. Music-Economic
aspects. I. Title. II. Series.
ML246.8.V6M87 1988
780'.7'30943613-dc19 88-23385
Copyright 1989 Pendragon Press New York
Contents
List of Tables ix
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgements
Xlll
Preface xv
Chapter One Private Concerts 1
Chapter Two Public Concerts 35
Chapter Three Public Concert Locations 65
Chapter Four Business and Financial 109
Aspects of Concert Giving
Chapter Five Public Concert Programs 141
Chapter Six Performers and Performance 165
Practice
Chapter Seven The Treatment of Viennese 191
Concerts in Periodicals
Chapter Eight The Cultural Context of 223
Viennese Concerts
Appendix One Public Concert Calendar 237
Appendix Two Private Concert Calendar 365
Appendix Three Concert Calendar Index 413
vii
CONTENTS
Appendix Four Private Concert Patrons 463
Appendix Five Foreign Language Quotations 473
Bibliography 523
Index 543
viii
List of Tables
Table 1. Oratorios Given by the 11
Gesellschaft der Associierten
Cavaliere, 1786-1792
Table 2. Private Oratorio Performances, 12
1793-1797
Table 3. Private Concert Patrons 16
Table 4. Oratorios Presented in the 40
1750s
Table 5. Concert Participants, 42
1754-1764
Table 6. Court Theater Officials, 67
1776-1810
Table 7. Burgtheater Dimensions, 1788 75
(Floorplan)
Table 8. Dimensions of the Viennese 90
Theaters
Table 9. Exchange Rates. Cost of 100 110
Gulden (Silver Coins) in
Paper Money
Table 10. Yearly Incomes 112
Table 11. Salaries-Court Actors, Musi- 113
cians, and Dancers (Highest
and Lowest Given)
ix
LIST OF TABLES
Table 12. Food Prices (in Kreutzer) for 115
Vienna in 1787.
Table 13. Living Expenses (Gulden per 116
Year)
Table 14. Lighting Expenses at the 130
Court-Controlled Theaters
Table 15. Theater Prices 131
Table 16. Concert Prices 133
Table 17. Proceeds for Virtuoso 136
Concerts
Table 18. Proceeds for Benefit Concerts 138
Table 19. Battle Pieces 157
Table 20. Chamber Music on Public 161
Concert Programs
Table 21. Court Theater Orchestras 175
Table 22. Private Theater Orchestras 176
Table 23. Private TheatPr Orchestra 176
Totals
Table 24. Orchestra at Die Schopfung 177
(March, 1808)
Table 25. Orchestra at Il ritorno di Tobia 179
(1784)
Table 26. Private Concert Orchestras 180
Table 27. German-Language Periodicals 193
with Viennese Concert
Information
x