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Tentative Institute Syllabus WEEK ONE INTRODUCTION TO MOZART STUDIES and EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AUSTRIA IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT and THE ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT OF MOZART’S WORLD
Texts Required: Till, Nicholas. Mozart and the Enlightenment: Truth, Virtue, and Beauty in Mozart’s Operas. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.
A recent Mozart biography, chosen from Volckmar Braunbehrens, Mozart in Vienna (New York, 1990); Georg Knepler, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (Cambridge, England, 1991); Julian Rushton, Mozart (Oxford, 2006); Maynard Solomon, Mozart (New York, 1995), or Stanley Sadie, The New Grove Mozart (New York, 1983)
Recommended: Ingrao, Charles. The Habsburg Monarchy 1618-1815. Cambridge, 1994. Compact volume on the Habsburg Empire by a leading American expert in 17th- and 18th-century Austrian history.
Wangermann, Ernst. The Austrian Achievement 1700-1800. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
Rosen, Charles. The Classic Style: Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, rev. ed. New York: Norton, 1973 (chapters 1, "The Origins of the Style" and 2, "The Classical Style")
Guest Dr. Fred Amrine (German, University of Michigan) Scholars Dr. Thomas Fröschl (History, University of Vienna) Richard Fuller (fortepianist, scholar, Vienna) Dr. Christian Otto (History of Architecture, Cornell University) Dr. Julane Rodgers (University of Dayton)
Saturday, 14 June Participants and faculty depart from U.S.
Sunday, 15 June Morning and Participants and faculty arrive in Vienna, and check in at the hotel early afternoon 4:30 Orientation walk through central Vienna 6:30 Opening dinner
Monday, 16 June 9:00-10:15 Introductions and orientation to the Institute 10:30-11:30 Mozart and Vienna and Mozart’s Letters (Benedum) 11:30-12:30 Mozart’s Vienna (Fröschl) 2:00-3:00 The Urban Character of Mozart’s Vienna (Otto)
Tuesday, 17 June morning Seeing Mozart’s Vienna: walking tour I (Otto) afternoon Seeing Mozart’s Vienna: walking tour II (Otto)
Wednesday, 18 June 9:00-10:15 Views of the Enlightenment from both Sides of the Atlantic (Fröschl) 10:30-12:00 Introduction to the Mozart’s Musical Language (Benedum, Rodgers) afternoon Seeing Mozart’s Vienna: walking tour III (Otto) Guided tour of City of Vienna Museum evening Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Benedum, Fröschl, Otto, Rodgers)
Thursday, 19 June 9:00-10:15 Aesthetic Education: Schiller’s “On the Aesthetic Education of Man...” and the Enlightenment (Amrine) 10:00-10:30 Mozart’s musical language (Benedum, Rodgers) 10:45-12:00 The Habsburg Empire in the Eighteenth Century (Fröschl) noon Optional lunch and continued discussion with Dr. Fröschl afternoon Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Benedum, Fröschl, Otto, Rodgers)
Friday, 20 June 9:00-10:15 Mozart and Freemasonry (Amrine) 10:30-11:30 Introduction to Literary Analysis (Kimbrough) 11:30-12:00 Taking stock after the first week
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Selected Additional Readings:
Anderson, Emily, ed. The Letters of Mozart and His Family, 3rd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1985; in the US, NY: W. W. Norton). Selections from 1781-82, describing the composition and early performances of Le nozze di Figaro.
Beales, Derek. Joseph II, Vol. I: In the Shadow of Maria Theresa, 1741-1780. Cambridge, 1980. The first volume of the definitive biography of the Habsburg emperor. Selections from this volume are useful in placing the controversial Joseph II in his wider political, social, and ideological contexts.
Braunbehrens, Volkmar. Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791 (translated by Timothy Bell; New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990) chapters 3 and 4, "At Home with the Mozarts" and "Vienna 1782-1785)
Brophy, Brigid. Mozart the Dramatist. London: Libros, 1988.
Goodman, Dena. “Women and the Enlightenment,” in Becoming Visible: Women in European History, 3rd ed. Renate Bridenthal, Susan Mosher Stuard and Merry E. Wiesner, eds. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Hesse, Carla. The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern (Princeton: Princeton U Pr, 2001)
Kerman, Joseph. Opera as Drama, 2nd ed. (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1988), chapter 4, "Mozart"
Landon, H. C. Robbins, ed. The Mozart Compendium. (London: Thames and Hudson, 1990), Section 4, "The Origins of Mozart's Style" and "Musical Life in Europe," pp 74-95.
-------. Mozart: The Golden Years. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1989), chapters 2 and 3, "The musical scene in Vienna, 1781-82" and "Vienna: the social scene"
Pestelli, Giorgio; trans. Eric Cross. The Age of Mozart and Beethoven. New York: Cambridge, 1984. A useful survey of the patronage system for musicians in an age of transition.
Scott, H. M. Enlightened Absolutism: Reform and Reformers in Later Eighteenth-Century Europe. Ann Arbor, 1990. A collection of historical essays by leading students of the European Enlightenment. Articles in this collection focus not only on the specific topic of the Enlightenment, but also on the conceptual and historical issues surrounding the entire Enlightenment. It is effective for placing the Austrian Enlightenment in its wider European context.
Spaethling, Robert. Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
Steptoe, Andrew. The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas: The Cultural and Musical Background to Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosí fan tutte. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1988, chapters 1-4 ("The Social Context: Vienna and her Ruler," "Musicians, Opera, and Audience in Mozart's Time," "Mozart and Vienna," and "Mozart and his Personal Circle").
Wangermann, Ernst. The Austrian Achievement 1700-1800. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
Zaslaw, Neal, ed. The Classical Era: From the 1740's to the End of the 18th Century (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990), chapters 1 and 4, "Music and Society in the Classical Era" (Zaslaw) and "Music in Maria Theresa's Vienna" (Bruce Alan Brown)
General Introductions to the Built Domain in Vienna and Central Europe in the 18th Century Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Court, Cloister & City. The Art and Culture of Central Europe 1450 - 1800. Chicago, 1995. The most recent and the best overall introduction to all the arts, including architecture. For our purposes, the relevant chapters are 10 - 16.
Alastair Laing, " Central and Eastern Europe", in Anthony Blunt, ed., Baroque & Rococo, Architecture & Decoration, New York, 1978, pp. 164-296. Laing's section in this book, 25 years old, remains the best and most intelligent introduction to the architecture of Central Europe.
Architecture and Urbanism Hans Aurenhammer, J.B. Fischer von Erlach, Cambridge, MA, 1973. Introduces this important architect, and larger issues concerning architectural production about 1700 in Vienna.
Samuel John Klingensmith, The Utility of Splendor: Ceremony, Social Life and Architecture at the Court of Bavaria, 1600-1800, Chicago, 1993. This is not about Vienna, but the issues about use and ceremony of the palace are relevant, and you otherwise don't hear about them.
Hellmut Lorenz, Liechtenstein Palaces in Vienna from the Age of the Baroque, New York, 1980. Provides a quick, well-illustrated overview of this material.
John P. Spielman, The City and the Crown: Vienna and the Imperial Court, 1600-1740, West Lafayette, IN, 1993. Provides a useful setting for considerations of the built domain.
General Overviews John G. Gagliardo, Reich and Nation: The Holy Roman Empire as Idea and Reality, 1763-1806, Bloomington, 1980
Margaret C. Jacob, The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s,
Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge U Pr
Roy Porter, The Enlightenment. London: Palgrave, 2001
George Schöplin and Nancy Wood, In Search of Central Europe. Oxford, 1989.
MOZART’S WORLDS WEEK TWO: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Texts Required Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro. Recommended edition: vocal score, Kalmus edition (includes English translation)
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro ((libretto with German and English translation) New York: The Metropolitan Opera Guild, 1990.
Recommended Carter, Tim. W. A. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Cambridge Opera Handbook). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. English National Opera and Royal Opera Guide, No. 17 (London: John Calder, 1983).
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Pr, 1957.
Guest Scholars Richard Fuller (Vienna) Dr. Rudolf Hopfner (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Collection of Instruments) Dr. R. Alan Kimbrough (University of Dayton) Dr. Paul J. Morman (University of Dayton) Dr. Christian Otto (Cornell University)
Monday, 23 June 9:00-9:30 Le nozze di Figaro in the Context of Mozart's Life (Benedum) 9:30-10:00 The literary background to Le nozze di Figaro (Kimbrough) 10:00-11:00 France, Beaumarchais, and the birth of Figaro in the Cauldron of the Enlightenment (Morman) 11:15-12:15 Listening and Discussion: Le nozze di Figaro, Act I (Benedum, Kimbrough, Rodgers) afternoon Guided tour of International Theater Museum, showing historic opera settings Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Benedum, Kimbrough, Morman, Rodgers, Schindler)
Tuesday, 24 June 9:00-12:00 Listening and Discussion: Le nozze di Figaro, Act I-II afternoon Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Benedum, Kimbrough, Morman, Rodgers, Schindler)
Wednesday, 25 June 9:00-10:30 Listening and Discussion: Le nozze di Figaro, Act III 10:45-12:00 Women and The Enlightenment (Morman) Afternoon Guided tour of Mozart apartment, now a museum (“Figaro house”) Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Benedum, Kimbrough, Morman, Rodgers, Schindler)
Thursday, 26 June 9:00-10:30 Listening and Discussion: Le nozze di Figaro, Act IV (Benedum, Kimbrough, Rodgers) 10:30-12:00 Closing Discussion with Faculty and Participants: How Revolutionary was Mozart’s Figaro? afternoon Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Benedum, Kimbrough, Morman, Rodgers, Schindler)
Friday, 27 June 10:45-12:15 Tour Hofburg Instrument Collection (Dr. Rudolf Hopfner) Optional Tour musical instruments in Vienna’s Technical Museum afternoon Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Amrine, Benedum, Kimbrough, Rodgers, Schindler)
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Selected Additional Readings:
Anderson, Emily. The Letters of Mozart and His Family, 3rd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1985). Selections from 1785-86, describing the composition and early performances of Le nozze di Figaro.
Beaumarchais, Pierre de. The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, trans by John Wood. Penguin, 1964.
Braunbehrens, Volkmar, Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791. Chapter 6-7, "Vienna 1786-1790" and "Vienna 1786- 1790."
Brophy, Brigid. Mozart the Dramatist.
Heartz, Daniel, ed. Mozart's Operas, chapters 9-12.
Landon, H. C. Robbins. Mozart: The Golden Years. Chapters 2-3: “The musical scene in Vienna, 1781-82" and “Vienna: the social scene.”
-------. The Mozart Compendium. "Mozart and the Theatre of His Time," pp. 358-371.
Spaethling, Robert. Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
Steptoe, Andrew. The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Chapters 1-5, 8.
Zaslaw, Neal, ed. The Classical Era: From the 1740s to the end of the 18th century. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989. Chapter 1, “Music and Society in the Classical Era” (Neal Zaslaw); Chapter 4, “Maria Theresa’s Vienna” (Bruce Alan Brown); Chapter 5, "Music Under Joseph II and Leopold II (John A. Rice); Chapter 6, “Salzburg under Church Rule” (Cliff Eisen).
MOZART’S WORLDS WEEK THREE: DON GIOVANNI
Texts Required Mozart, Don Giovanni. Recommended edition: vocal score, Kalmus edition (includes English translation)
Mozart, Don Giovanni ((libretto with German and English translation) New York: The Metropolitan Opera Guild, 1990.
Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 Recommended edition: Norton Study Score
Recommended Rushton, Julius. W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni (Cambridge Opera Handbook). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Mozart's Don Giovanni. English National Opera and Royal Opera Guide, No. 18 (London: John Calder, 1983)
Guest Scholars Dr. Marilyn Fischer (University of Dayton) Dr. R. Alan Kimbrough (University of Dayton) Dr. Julane Rodgers (University of Dayton)
Monday, 30 June 9:00-10:00 The Literary Background to Don Giovanni (Kimbrough) 10:15-10:45 Don Giovanni in the Context of Mozart's Life (Benedum) 10:45-12:00 Listening and Discussion: Don Giovanni, Act I Afternoon Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Benedum, Fischer, Kimbrough, Otto, Rodgers, Schindler)
Tuesday, 1 July 9:00-11:00 Listening and Discussion: Don Giovanni, Act I 11:00-12:15 Images of Women in Don Giovanni (Fischer) afternoon Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Benedum, Fischer, Kimbrough, Rodgers, Schindler)
Wednesday, 2 July 9:00-12:00 Listening and Discussion: Don Giovanni, Act II afternoon Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Benedum, Fischer, Kimbrough, Rodgers, Schindler)
Thursday, 3 July 9:00-10:30 The Problem of Evil in Don Giovanni (Fischer) 10:45-12:00 Listening and Discussion: Don Giovanni, Act II afternoon Mozart and the Idea of “Genius” (Benedum–optional) Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Benedum, Fischer, Kimbrough, Rodgers, Schindler)
Friday, 4 July Free day for participants and faculty; optional trip to Prague for those participants who want to see the city where Don Giovanni was premiered. Profs. Benedum, Kimbrough, and/or Otto may accompany and guide participants who want to make this trip.
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Heartz, Daniel. Mozart's Operas (with contributed essays by Thomas Bauman). Berkely: Univ of California, 1990.
Schroeder, David. Mozart in Revolt: Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception. New Haven: Yale Univ Pr, 1999. Chapters 7-8.
Stafford, William. The Mozart Myths: A Critical Reassessment. Stanford: Stanford U Pr, 1991. Chapters 4- 6.
Stankova, Jaroslav, Jiri Stursa, and Svatoplunk Vodera. Prague: Eleven Centuries of Architecture. Trans Zdenek Vyplel and David Vaughan. Prague: PAV, 1992.
Steptoe, Andrew. The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Chapters 1-5, 9.
MOZART’S WORLDS WEEK FOUR: TEACHING MOZART'S OPERAS
Guest Scholars R. Alan Kimbrough Julane Rodgers
Master Guest Teacher James Schindler
Texts A recent Mozart biography, chosen from Volckmar Braunbehrens Mozart in Vienna (New York, 1990), Georg Knepler Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (Cambridge, England, 1991), Maynard Solomon Mozart (New York, 1995), or Stanley Sadie The New Grove Mozart (New York, 1983)
Monday, 7 July 9:00-12:00 Listening and Discussion: Don Giovanni, Act II
Tuesday, 8 July 9:00-10:45 Comparative Listening and Discussion: Don Giovanni 11:00-12:15 Don Giovanni as a Feminist Opera: A Pretty Good Case (Fischer) Afternoon Time for Participants’ Reading/Individual or Small Group Discussion (Benedum, Fischer, Kimbrough, Rodgers, Schindler)
Wednesday, 9 July 9:00-9:30 Teaching Mozart across the Curriculum: Initial Thoughts (Schindler) 9:30-10:30 More than One Don? Other ‘Don Giovanni” Settings in the 18th Century and Beyond (Rodgers) 10:45-12:00 Participant presentations: Progress Reports on Individual/Group Projects Afternoon Time for Participants' Reading and/or Writing; Curricular Focus Groups Evening Time for Participants' Reading and/or Writing; Curricular Focus Groups
Thursday, 10 July 9:00-10:00 How Good Was Mozart? A Look at Music by His Contemporaries (Rodgers) 10:00-11:00 Participant presentations: Progress Reports on Individual/Group Projects 11:00-12:00 Life after the Institute: Opportunities for Participants to Continue to Grow in the Humanities (Benedum and faculty/participants) Evening Closing dinner
Friday, 11 July Participants depart
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Selected Additional Readings:
Braunbehrens, Volkmar. Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791. Chapter 8, "The Last Year"
Hildesheimer, Wolfgang. Mozart, translated by Marion Faber; New York: Vintage Books, 1983. A controversial study combining a biographal with a "demythologizing" view of Mozart as a flawed and puzzling human being.
Kupferberg, Herbert. A Mozart Mosaic. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.
Landon, HC Robbins. The Mozart Compendium. "Reception" and "Mozart Literature," pp 386-417.
-------. 1791: Mozart's Last Year. NY: G. Schirmer, 1990.
Spaethling, Robert. Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. |
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