(Stand: 25. Juli 2007) ANDERSON, Michael Alan ... - Universität Wien

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MUSIC CONFERENCE 2007 – WIEN, 7.-11. AUGUST ABSTRACTS
Frankreich und Deutschland erstmals im Zusammenhang der musikwissenschaftlichen
Öffentlichkeit präsentiert und unter aktuellen musikwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen
diskutiert werden.
Dr. Tomasz Jeż bespricht in seinem Referat „The motets of Jacob Handl in interconfessional
Silesian liturgical practice” die Entstehung der Motetten vor Handl-Gallus’
Aufenthalt in Prag und ihre Einbindung in die zeitgenössische liturgische Praxis. Dr.
Marc Desmet M.C. untersucht daran anschließend in seinem Referat „Nervus praeli et typographicum
robur fractum: Jacob Handl’s relation to the press“ das bislang kaum Beachtung
gefundene Druckwesen und die damit in Verbindung stehende Beziehung des Komponisten
zu seinem Bruder Georg. Dr. Ivan Florjanc referiert über die humanistischen Hintergründe
des Handl-Gallus – „Gallus, der Humanist, amat Venerem, cur?“, dabei den Titel
einer Komposition der als Vermächtnis zu bezeichnenden Moralia aufgreifend. Thomas
Napp, M.A. spricht über „Frühneuzeitliche Transferprozesse im mehrstimmigen Lied und
in der Motette Ostmitteleuropas am Beispiel des Komponisten Jacob Handl-Gallus“, sich
dabei auch grundlegend mit methodologisch-historiographischen und musikhistorischen
Fragestellungen der aktuellen Forschung zum Komponisten auseinandersetzend.
In the middle of the last century, the Slovenian researcher Dragotin Cvetko brought a
renewed awareness to Jacob Handl-Gallus, and since then musicologists from Poland, the
Czech Republic, Slovenia, France, Austria and Germany have continued his work, but
now with an increased approach that crosses previous national boundaries. This shift has
facilitated an international network of researchers, who have engaged in productive exchanges,
to this point primarily through correspondence.
The current scholarly discourse on the life and works of Handl-Gallus reflects the
cosmopolitan nature of his career which involved time in Carnolia, Vienna, Bohemia,
Moravia, Silesia, and Upper Lusatia. Furthermore, with the changes brought by the events
of 1989/90 and now with the expansion of the EU into Eastern Europe in May 2004, many
of the archives and libraries of the East have been revisited and have allowed for new research.
Therefore, various aspects of this research will be presented by four musicologists
from Poland, Slovenia, France, and Germany in Vienna at the Medieval and Renaissance
Music Conference (2007), and their new findings from the archives will be discussed in this
context.
Dr. Tomasz Jeż’s presentation, ‘The motets of Jacob Handl in inter-confessional
Silesian liturgical practice,’ will examine the development of the motets before Handl-
Gallus relocated to Prague and their relationship to the contemporary liturgical practice.
With his paper entitled, ‘Nervus praeli et typographicum robur fractum: Jacob Handl’s relation
to the press,’ Dr. Marc Desmet M.C. demonstrates the extent of the composer’s connections
to print, which is closely tied to the relationship with his brother Georg. The
humanist background of Handl-Gallus is traced by Dr. Ivan Florjanc in ‘Gallus, der Humanist,
amat Venerem, cur?’ – the Latin refers to one of the Moralia by the composer from
the last portion of his life. Thomas Napp (M.A.) will speak on the ‘Frühneuzeitliche
Transferprozesse im mehrstimmigen Lied und in der Motette Ostmitteleuropas am
Beispiel des Komponisten Jacob Handl-Gallus,’ which will address the historical and
methodological-historiographical questions of the current Handl-Gallus research.
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