Završen je projekt MusMig

16. prosinca 2016.

Trogodišnji projekt „Music Migrations in the Early Modern Age: the Meeting of the European East, West and South“, koji se od rujna 2013. vodio iz Hrvatske (HAZU, Odsjek za povijest hrvatske glazbe), završio je u studenom 2016. Sedamnaest znanstvenika sa šest instituta i sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Ljubljani, Mainzu, Berlinu i Varšavi istraživalo je migracije glazbenika u 17. i 18. stoljeću, njihove susrete i utjecaje te diseminaciju ideja, muzikalija i glazbala. Baza podataka u kojoj je sakupljeno preko 3500 imena skladatelja, interpreta, graditelja glazbala, učitelja, prepisivača i mecena svjedoči o kronologijama njihovih kretanja i mjestima susreta. Održana su tri znanstvena skupa (Mainz, Zagreb, Varšava), a znanstvenici s projekta sudjelovali su ili organizirali ukupno 170 nastupa: predavanja, izlaganja na simpozijima, koncerte, izložbe i radionice. Objavili su preko 150 znanstvenih i stručnih radova (knjige, poglavlja u knjigama, članke, izvješća) te notna izdanja. Važan aspekt vidljivosti projektnog djelovanja bilo je objavljivanje notnog materijala te organizacija koncerata s djelima skladatelja „migranata“ kako bi se šira javnost upoznala s onima koji su dali doprinos razvoju glazbene kulture određene sredine. Hrvatska grupa objavila je osam notnih svezaka skladbi 18. stoljeća te ih predstavila na dva koncerta i DVD-u koji su dostupni na YouTube kanalu Hrvatskog muzikološkog društva koji je u projektu sudjelovao kao neakademski partner. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mjDvdgBe4X8fC60_MeNzw).

Za više informacija vidi:
Web: http://musmig.eu/home/
Blog: http://musmig.hypotheses.org/

MusMig project has been completed

16 December 2016

The three-year project “Music Migrations and the Early Modern Age: The Meeting of the European East, West and South”, coordinated from Croatia (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Department for History of Croatian Music) since September 2013, has been completed in November 2016. Seventeen scientists from six institutes and universities in Zagreb, Ljubljana, Mainz, Berlin, and Warsaw were investigating the migrations of musicians in the 17th and 18th century, their meetings and influences, dissemination of ideas, music material and musical instruments. The database created in the project, which contains over 3500 names of composers, interpreters, instrument makers, teachers, scribes, and patrons, testifies about the chronologies of their migrations as well as their meeting points. Three scholarly meetings were held: in Mainz, Zagreb, and Warsaw. Scientists from the project participated or organized a total of 170 outputs: lectures, papers at the symposiums, concerts, exhibitions, and workshops. More than 150 scientific and professional papers were published: books, book chapters, articles, reports, and musical scores. An important objective within the project visibility was the publication of music material and the organization of concerts with music by “migrating” composers in order to draw the attention of the audience on all those who contributed to the development of musical culture of their environments. The Croatian group published eight music scores of pieces from the 18th century, presented them at two concerts and a DVD available on the YouTube channel of the Croatian Musicological Society, the non-academic partner of the MusMig project. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mjDvdgBe4X8fC60_MeNzw).

For more info see
Web: http://musmig.eu/home/
Blog: http://musmig.hypotheses.org/

New edition of the HERA MusMig Croatian project group

Julije Bajamonti: Aria di Arbace nell’ Artaserse for Soprano and Orchestra (1776)

Publisher: Croatian Musicological Society
Series: Gazophylacium Musicae Croaticae, No. 9
ISMN: 979-0-9005206-7-8
Editor-in-Chief & Revised by: Vjera Katalinić

Zagreb, 2016

Julije Bajamonti’s Aria di Arbace nell’ Artaserse (1776) (Per quel paterno amplesso) was composed for soprano accompanied by a standard Classicist orchestra consisting of strings, flutes and horns a due. Although Bajamonti (1744-1800) composed it in Venice, he probably intended it for performance in his native town of Split. Its text reveals the Metastasian spirit, well-known on the Venetian musical scene. It might have been inspired by the aria of the same title from the opera Artaserse, composed by Ferdinando Bertoni based on Metastasio’s text, which had been performed in Venice during the spring of 1776. The autograph score is kept in the music collection of Don Nikola Udina/Algarotti (1791-1838), a priest from the island of Krk, who was schooled in Split and Vienna, and later lived in Salzburg and Vienna.

The dramatic Aria di Arbace nell’ Artaserse was performed by the soprano Monika Cerovčec and the Croatian Baroque Ensemble at the final concert of the HERA MusMig concert Migrant and travelling composers of the late 18^th century held in Zagreb in May 2016. Just like Bajamonti’s Frena, mio bene, aria for soprano and orchestra composed in 1775 and published by the HERA MusMig Croatian group in 2013, it will be available to the all musicians interested in the 18^th-century music.

New edition of the HERA MusMig Croatian project group

Giovanni Giornovichi / Ivan Jarnović: Thirteenth Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A major

Publisher: Croatian Musicological Society
Series: Gazophylacium Musicae Croaticae, No. 8
ISMN: 979-0-9005206-6-1
Editor-in-Chief & Revised by: Vjera Katalinić

Zagreb, 2015

Giornovichi’s Thirteenth Concerto was first issued by the Parisian publisher Jean-Georges Sieber, as were the majority of his other concerti. It may even have been his last piece to receive publication while he was still in the French capital on the eve of his departure for England in 1789. Already in the next year, it was published by the London editor Longman & Broderip as well as by Jean André in Offenbach. It seems that the London edition of this, as well as that of the Eleventh Concerto, overlaps with Giornovichi’s first concerts in that city, even though his compositions were undoubtedly performed there at least since 1788. In any case, it is one of the first publications (or even the first) of one of Giornovichi’s pieces at Longman & Broderip’s; evidence can be found in the catalogue of the publisher, attached to the concert, which shows no trace of his compositions on the list. In the announcement of Giornovichi’s (probably) second performance on 19 March, 1790, at the Hanover Square Rooms, the reporter of the London Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser presents this virtuoso as “celebrated all over Europe for his exquisite performance on the violin, and for the beauty of his compositions”. It is possible that it was precisely the Thirteenth Concerto which he presented to the London audience, although there are no reports on this fact. Three extant printed versions, as well as two manuscript copies (one in London and one in Germany), testify that this piece had been widely performed.

Giuseppe Michele Stratico’s Concert on the repertoire of the Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra and soloists

Zagreb, 7 June 2016

Five music scores were published within the HERA MusMig project: two violin concertos by Giovanni Giornovichi/Ivan Jarnović, two concertos for two violins by Giuseppe Michele Stratico, and an aria by Julije Bajamonti. These compositions have already been performed by the Croatian Baroque Ensemble, violinists Bojan Čičić and Ivan Jakšeković, and soprano Monika Cerovčec, on the HERA MusMig concerts held in Zagreb in October 2014 and May 2016.

We are pleased that this time Giuseppe Michele Stratico’s “Concert for two violins and strings in D major (2)”, published within the HERA MusMig project in 2013, will be performed by violinists Dmitrij Sinkovski and Silvio Richter, accompanied by the Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Tomislav Fačini. This will be a part of the Croatian Radiotelevision Choir and the Symphony Orchestra’s last concert of the season, which will be held on 9 June 2016. The concert entitled “Odzivi starina” (“Echoes of the antiquities”) will include works by Croatian migrant composers of the 18^th and 19^th century: Amando Ivančić, Giuseppe Michele Stratico and Antun Sorkočević. The concert will also present works by Croatian contemporary composers Marko Ruždjak and Mladen Tarbuk, both reflecting on the musical past. Live broadcast of the concert will be on the Third Programme of the Croatian Radio.

Lucija Konfic, member of the Croatian partner group of the HERA MusMig project and author of the preface in the edition, presented today the Concerto on the Croatian Radio, announced the performance and emphasized it as an excellent example of the knowledge exchange.

The Croatian Radiotelevision Choir and the Symphony Orchestra
Tomislav Fačini, conductor
Dmitrij Sinkovski, Silvio Richter, violins
Ivana Garaj Korpar, soprano
Filip Merčep, marimba
Monika Cerovčec, soprano
Miroslav Živković, baritone

Amando Ivančić: Symphony in C major
Marko Ruždjak: Ricercar for strings
Giuseppe Michele Stratico: Concert for two violins and strings in D major (2)
Mladen Tarbuk: Medida del tiempo por relojes differentes for soprano, marimba and strings
Antun Sorkočević: Dixit Dominus for soloists, choir and orchestra

Link: http://glazba.hrt.hr/337495/odzivi-starina-u-studiju-bajsic

HERA MusMig had two presentations at the Annual meeting of the Croatian Musicological Society

Zagreb, 4 June 2016

Two members of the Croatian group of the HERA MusMig project delivered papers at the Annual meeting of the Croatian Musicological Society, held in Zagreb on 3^rd and 4^th June 2016. Stanislav Tuksar presented his research “Works by Croatian music writers from the 16^th to 18^th centuries in the libraries of the Republic of Poland“. Vilena Vrbanić gave a presentation “The database in the project MusMig: results”. Croatian Musicological Society is the associate partner of the HERA MusMig project. The whole programme of the meeting is available here: http://www.hmd-music.hr/.

Final concert of the HERA MusMig project

17 May 2016

The final concert of the HERA MusMig project was held on 16 May 2016 in the National Revival Hall in Zagreb. The concert, entitled “Migrant and travelling composers of the late 18^th century”, was performed by the Croatian Baroque Ensemble and the soloists: Monika Cerovčec, soprano and violinists Bojan Čičić and Ivan Jakšeković. The performance of the parts from the Giovanni Sarti’s opera Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode was provided thank to the collaboration of the project MusMig and the project “A Cosmopolitan Composer in Pre-Revolutionary Europe – Giuseppe Sarti” at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Giuseppe Michele Stratico’s Concerto for two violins and strings in D major (1), Giovanni Giornovichi’s 13^th Concerto for violin and orchestra in A major, and Giulio Bajamonti’s aria for soprano and orchestra Frena mio bene were published during the MusMig project. Bajamonti’s aria for soprano and orchestra Per quel paterno amplesso will be published till the end of the project.

HERA MusMig Project in the Journal of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

5 May 2016

An article “EU Projects: Music Migrations in the Early Modern Age: the Meeting of the European East, West and South (MusMig”, written by the project leader Vjera Katalinić, was published in the “Glasnik HAZU”, journal of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (vol. 1, no. 2). Online version can be found here: http://info.hazu.hr/files/listanje/glasnk/02/index.html#38.

Announcement of the final concert of the HERA MusMig project

3 May 2016

The final concert of the HERA MusMig project will be held on Monday, 16 May 2016 in the National Revival Hall in Zagreb. The concert entitled “Migrant and travelling composers of the late 18^th century” will be performed by the Croatian Baroque Ensemble and the soloists: Monika Cerovčec, soprano and violinists Bojan Čičić and Ivan Jakšeković. Compositions by Giuseppe Michele Stratico, Julije Bajamonti and Giovanni Giornovichi were published during the MusMig project. The performance of the parts from the Giovanni Sarti’s opera “Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode” will be provided thank to the collaboration of the project MusMig and the project “A Cosmopolitan Composer in Pre-Revolutionary Europe – Giuseppe Sarti” at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

Links:
HRBA Croatian Baroque Ensemble

Croatian Composers’ Society awarded book on the Sorkočevićes by Vjera Katalinić

Zagreb, September 2015

Vjera Katalinić, leader of the HERA MusMig project, was awarded with the “Josip Andreis” Prize of Croatian Composers’ Society, for her contributions to the field of musicology and music journalism, for her bilingual book (in Croatian and English) “Sorkočevići, dubrovački plemići i glazbenici / The Sorkočevićes: Aristocratic Musicians from Dubrovnik”, published in 2014 by the Croatian Music Information Center. Book covers and brings together previous research into the careers in music of Luka and Antun Sorgo (and one chapter is devoted to an associate member of the family, shown to have been “the first Croatian woman composer”, Jelena Pozza-Sorgo/Pucić-Sorkočević). At the same time, their work has been placed in the context of the happenings of the time, their primary occupations and the domestic and international forces that affected them from the musical point of view. The accompanying recordings, that cover all the instrumental compositions that can with certainty to be ascribed to Luka Sorgo, are interpreted by the ensemble Salzburger Hofmusik led by Wolfgang Brunner. The purpose of this book is not to show only how these Ragusan musicians worked, but to place them in their pertaining social, political and cultural contexts and thus to find the reasons and stimuli for their procedures outside the musical context. It would seem that some earlier uncertainties have thus been solved, and yet precisely through such new understandings, unburdened with the weight of history, some fresh questions have arisen.

Concert during the MusMig conference in Zagreb

by Martin Albrecht-Hohmaier, 2015

During the internatinal meeting in Zagreb, 13–14 October 2014 Music Migration in the Early Modern Age: People, Markets, Patterns, Styles our hosts organised a wonderfull concert in the National Revival Historical Hall in Zagreb:

Migrant Musicians in the Enlightenment Era

Two of the works – edited by the leader of the MusMig project Vjera Katalinic and revised by Zoran Juranić – played by the Croatian Baroque Ensemble are on YouTube:

Concerto a due violini obbligati in D (2)
by Giuseppe Michele Stratico (1728–1783)
Allegro
Andantino
Allegro
Soloists: Bojan Čičić and Ivan Jakšeković
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtlnpOWLMlU.

Concerto for violin and orchestra in A major, Nr. 14
by Ivan Jarnović (1747–1804)
Allegro
Amoroso con espressione
Rondeau a la Russe
Solist: Bojan Čičić
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKUlBfzWlf0