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- Berglund, Lars, 1964-
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Italian Music in the Düben Collection
- 2017
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In: Musicologica Istropolitana. - Bratislava. - 1337-9070. ; :13, s. 147-167
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Düben Collection in Uppsala contains many unique compositions and a rela-tively large share of Italian music. About a third of the composers represented in the collection are Italian, and their music constitutes about a sixth of the 2200 com-positions. In the article, a survey of the Italian music is presented and the routes of dissemination are traced. A large share of the compositions by Italian composers have been copied from prints into manuscripts. Some of the prints are still in the Düben Collection, others must have been available to Gustav Düben at some point. As much as half of the Italian compositions belong to this category. There is also a relatively large share of pieces that reached Stockholm in manuscripts, but were originally copied from prints on the Continent – in some cases perhaps even in several steps of manuscript dissemination.The numbers of works that reached Sweden through manuscript dissemination only, never having appeared in print, is comparatively small but important, since this group contains several unique Italian works and manuscripts with an interesting dissemination history. About fifteen such manuscripts travelled to Sweden with an ensemble of Italian singers and musicians recruited to the court of Queen Christina in 1652, with Vincenzo Albrici as maestro di cappella. In addition, there are thirty-six manuscripts copied by Gustav Düben and his helpers. This group of manuscripts contains unique works by, for example, Giacomo Carissimi and Francsco Foggia.Two case studies shed light on the complexity of dissemination routes in the case of the Düben Collection. The ten compositions each by Simone Vesi and Gio-vanni Carisio reached Sweden in different ways: they were copied from prints, aquired in manuscript via Lübeck or Hamburg, and via Danzig. Some works have been re-texted and adapted for local purposes.The case of Italian music in the Düben Collection illustrates the complexity of the collection and its routes of dissemination and the necessity to scrutinize and contextualize every single manuscript.
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