Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture

Anja Bunzel works at the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, where she researches (semi-)private musical culture in nineteenth-century Prague within a European context. She is co-editor of Musical Salon Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century (Boydell, 2019), and author of The Songs of Johanna Kinkel: Genesis, Reception, Context (Boydell, 2020).Christopher Campo-Bowen is Assistant Professor of Musicology in the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech. He holds a PhD in musicology from UNC Chapel Hill. His research focuses on music in the Habsburg monarchy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially through topics like opera, ethnicity, gender, and empire.

• IntroductionANJA BUNZEL AND CHRISTOPHER CAMPO-BOWENPART 1Performance and Identity1 Bohemian Divas and the Rise of Czech National ConsciousnessMARTIN NEDBAL, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, USA2 Sweet Street Music for Petty Alms: The Barrel-Organ Career of Anna Balcarová in the Poděbrady Region, 1889–1905RISTO PEKKA PENNANEN, SIBELIUS ACADEMY, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS HELSINKI, FINLAND3 The Australian Career of Soprano Gabriella Roubalová ("Madame Boema")JANICE B. STOCKIGT, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA4 Eliška Krásnohorská and Czech Operatic Historiography: Reconciling the Paradox of Women’s Authorial VoicesBRIAN S. LOCKE, WESTERN LLLINOIS UNIVERSITY, USAPART 2Institutional Structures and Networks 5 Women in the Musical Culture of Viennese Czechs (Slavs) in the Nineteenth Century: Towards a Social TypologyVIKTOR VELEK, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS AND MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA, CZECH REPUBLIC6 Josef Hellmesberger’s Female Students from Moravia and Their Presence in European Musical LifeANNKATRIN BABBE, ALBAN BERG FOUNDATION, VIENNA, AUSTRIA7 The "Disorder It Created": Women’s Education at the Prague Conservatory in the Nineteenth CenturyFREIA HOFFMANN, SOPHIE DRINKER INSTITUTE, BREMEN / UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBERG, GERMANY8 The Three Ebert Sisters: Wilhelmine Tomaschek, Juliane Glaser, and Elisabeth HansgirgMARKÉTA KABELKOVÁ, NATIONAL MUSEUM – CZECH MUSEUM OF MUSIC, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC9 Reminiscences of Past Sounds: The Musical Autograph Album (1813–1852) of Elise Gräfin von SchlikHENRIKE ROST, UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS, VIENNA, AUSTRIAPART 3Reception and Analysis10 Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach and Her Piano WorksJANA LENGOVÁ, INSTITUTE OF MUSICOLOGY, SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BRATISLAVA, SLOVAK REPUBLIC11 "My Soul Is Filled with Songs": Josefina Brdlíkováas a Song ComposerANJA BUNZEL, INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC12 Singing Women and the "Woman Question" in the Czech LandsKELLY ST. PIERRE, WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA / THE CENTER FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC13 "Man-Hungry Amazon" or "Treacherous Trumpeter"? A Case Study of the Sources for and Reception of Fibichand Schulzová’s ŠárkaEMMA PARKER, INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR, SANTA BARBARA, USA14 Ježibaba’s Ambiguities: Binaries, Power, and Queer Alterity in Antonín Dvořák’s RusalkaCHRISTOPHER CAMPO-BOWEN, VIRGINIA TECH SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS, USA15 Afterword: Dvořák’s WomenMICHAEL BECKERMAN, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, USA