Transferring the Gabrielis to the north. On the reception of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli in seventeenth-century Scandinavia Cover Image

Transferring the Gabrielis to the north. On the reception of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli in seventeenth-century Scandinavia
Transferring the Gabrielis to the north. On the reception of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli in seventeenth-century Scandinavia

Author(s): Lars Berglund
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Musica Iagellonica Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: Andrea Gabrieli; Giovanni Gabrieli; reception; seventeenth century; Sweden; music collections

Summary/Abstract: Music by Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli did not have a prominent place in Swedenduring the early modern period and a substantial part of the music by them preservedin Swedish libraries arrived as booties of war during the Thirty Years’ War and wasnever in practical use. There is performance material in manuscripts connected withthe German Church in Stockholm, Uppsala University and some of the cathedral citygymnasia, with parts mostly copied from German or Flemish anthologies of Italianmusic. The situation in Sweden differs radically from Denmark, where there wasa much more active reception, with Danish composers traveling to study for GiovanniGabrieli. Still, it is argued that the kind of peripheral and mediated disseminationrevealed in Swedish Gabrieli sources should not be mistaken for passive reception, butwas rather marked by a different degrees of agency.

  • Issue Year: 8/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 139-156
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English