Gesa zur Nieden – författare

Der Band erkundet das Verhältnis von Musik und Natur aus musikwissenschaftlicher, philosophischer und künstlerischer Perspektive. Dabei reflektieren seine Beiträge sowohl den Musikbegriff als auch den Naturbegriff, indem sie nach der Rolle der Natur in der Musik und der Rolle der Musik für die Natur fragen: In welcher Weise ändert sich Komponieren unter den Bedingungen einer Auseinandersetzung mit dem Klimawandel? Welche Rolle spielt die Musik im Reich der Künste mit Blick auf unsere zweite, rationale Natur? Inwieweit erweist sich die Natur-Kultur-Unterscheidung mit Blick auf Musik als problematisch?

During the 17th and 18th century musicians' mobilities and migrations are essential for the European music history and the cultural exchange of music. Adopting viewpoints that reflect different methodological approaches and diversified research cultures, the book presents studies on central scopes, strategies and artistic outcomes of mobile and migratory musicians as well as on the transfer of music. By looking at elite and non-elite musicians and their everyday mobilities to major and minor centers of music production and practice, new biographical patterns and new stylistic paradigms in the European East, West and South emerge.

In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer's abilities proved the best recipe for fulfilling the expectations of audiences. Known as »pasticcios« since the 18th-century, these operas have long been considered inferior patchwork. The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles.