DFG opera project

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The DFG opera project is an online database implemented at the University of Cologne . It documents the repertoire of those operas from Germany and Italy that were performed in the cities of Vienna , Dresden , Berlin , Munich and Weimar between 1770 and 1830 .

organization

The now completed DFG opera project, which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), was founded in 2000 by the Romance scholar Wolf-Dieter Lange and the musicologist Wolfram Steinbeck at the University of Bonn . From October 2001 the project was based in the Institute for Musicology at the University of Cologne. The Institute for Applied Musicology and Psychology (IAMP) took on the technical implementation. In April 2018, the musicology department at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz took over responsibility.

The project, the full name of which is The Opera in Italy and Germany between 1770 and 1830 , was created in cooperation with the following libraries:

The scientific collaboration also extended to the research institute for musical theater in Thurnau, the research project for drama music around 1800 at the Liszt School of Music Weimar , the music department of the German Historical Institute in Rome and the Da Ponte Institute in Vienna.

aims

The DFG opera project aimed to document the development of an independent German-language opera tradition in 1800. The reception presented the Italian opera a special research focus your influence in Germany could namely -. In contrast to the influence of French opera until then insufficiently researched - .

The period included Mozart's early operas, which are seen as an attempt to institutionally establish German opera. At the same time, the project dealt with the operas of the German composer Carl Maria von Weber under the aspect of a national alternative to Italian opera. From the point of view of musicological research, however, this alternative was counteracted by the successful reception of the operas by the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini in Germany.

documentation

With more than 350,000 pages of digitized opera manuscripts, the online database is one of the largest digital manuscript collections published on the Internet. 483 manuscripts of the operas that were performed in the five selected locations between 1770 and 1830 are documented. These operas represent a representative cross-section. The search function allows the entry of the following criteria:

  • Operas
  • Composers
  • Manuscripts
  • Frames
  • Libretti
  • Librettists
  • Performance series
  • Performance dates.

In addition to this documentation, the DFG opera project has also published individual results that arose in the course of the project work. In 2004, a symposium was also held that dealt with the subject of opera on the move - generic concepts of German-language music theater around 1800 . On the occasion of the symposium, Joseph Weigl's opera Die Schweizer Familie was performed again in a modern version.

Publications (selection)

  • Matthias Corvin: Form concepts of the overture from Mozart to Beethoven . Bosse, Kassel 2005
  • Fabian Kolb: exponent of change. Joseph Weigl and the introduction to his Italian and German-language operas . Lit-Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9878-4 .
  • Marcus Chr. Lippe: Rossini's opera series . For the musical-dramatic conception . Steiner, Wiesbaden 2005
  • Klaus Pietschmann : Between tradition, adaptation and innovation. Italian operas for German courts in the early 19th century . In: Sebastian Werr u. Daniel Brandenburg (Ed.): The image of the Italian opera in Germany . Lit-Verlag, Münster 2004, pp. 108–121, ISBN 3-8258-8279-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Oehler: Research: Completed Projects (selection) ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (The opera in Italy and Germany between 1770 and 1830, IAMP project together with Christoph Reuter and Justyna Hadyniak). Retrieved June 8, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.michaeloehler.de
  2. ↑ University Archive / Thuringian State Music Archive Weimar. Retrieved March 15, 2015 .