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Diplomats had multiple tasks: not only negotiating with the representatives of other states, but also mediating culture and knowledge, and not least elaborating reports on their observations of politics, society, and culture. Culture, according to the studies featured in this book, is defined as a complex sphere including aspects like systems of communication, literature, music, arts, education, and the creation of knowledge. This edition containing contributions from six conferences held in Vienna and Istanbul by the Don Juan Archiv Wien focuses on the complex diplomatic and cultural relations between the Ottoman Empire and Europe from the time of the early embassies to Istanbul up to "Tanzimat".

Anknüpfend an die bislang einzige Studie über die Wiener Theatralzensur im 18. Jahrhundert, die Publikation von Carl Glossy aus dem Jahr 1897, befasst sich vorliegende Arbeit mit der Entwicklung der Theatralzensur in den k. k. Erbländern in den Jahren 1760 bis 1790. Die organisatorische Neugestaltung der Theatralzensur in der Residenzstadt Wien im Jahre 1770 wird als komplexes Zusammenspiel zwischen dem staatlichen Wunsch nach Kontrolle und reformorientierten Intellektuellen analysiert, in deren Diskurs das Theater zu einer zentralen Bildungsinstitution avancierte. Der Theaterzensor wird, im Unterschied zur kollegial agierenden Bücherzensurkommission, zum Typus eines "einsamen Zensors", der zugleich in einem "Nebelfeld" agiert. Die vorliegende Untersuchung befasst sich in besonderer Weise mit den Friktionen gegen Ende der theresianischen Zeit und den Umbrüchen im josephinischen Jahrzehnt - einem Themenkomplex, der in der Forschung zur Theatralzensur bislang kaum beachtet wurde.

Il volume si ricollega a un convegno tenutosi a Vienna sul primo decennio dell''attività artistica di Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782), concentrandosi sulla stagione in cui egli si impegnò ad affermarsi come "virtuoso di poesia" prima nei salotti napoletani, poi nei teatri d''opera di Napoli, Roma e Venezia. In questi anni Metastasio ebbe modo di sviluppare la sua sottile ed elegante poetica per le scene melodrammatiche – la sua nomina a poeta cesareo presso la corte viennese (1730) amplificò notevolmente la diffusione dei suoi testi in Europa. I suoi libretti più famosi furono intonati da più di 80 compositori, tra cui Mozart e Beethoven. I contributi del volume guidano il lettore nell''officina del poeta e illustrano l''eccezionale combinazione di musicalità, cultura, e un geniale senso dell''efficacia dell''azione drammatica.Der vorliegende Band geht auf eine Wiener Konferenz über das erste Jahrzehnt der künstlerischen Tätigkeit von Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782) zurück. Er befasst sich mit der Zeit, als er anstrebt, sich als "virtuoso di poesia" zuerst in napoletanischen Salons, schließlich in den Opernhäusern der musikalischen Zentren Neapel, Rom und Venedig durchzusetzen. In diesem Zeitraum entwickelte Metastasio seine elegante und subtile Poetik für die Opernbühne – seine Berufung als poeta cesareo an den Wiener Hof (1730) förderte die Verbreitung seiner Werke in Europa ganz enorm. Seine berühmtesten Libretti wurden von mehr als 80 Komponisten vertont – darunter Mozart und Beethoven. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes führen die Leser in die Werkstatt des Dichters und veranschaulichen die außerordentliche Kombination von Musikalität, Gelehrsamkeit und genialem Spürsinn für theatrale Wirksamkeit.

On the "Rio Don-Giovanni-Day", 20 September 2021, a concert is dedicated to the works of Sigismund Neukomm composed in and for Brazil.The programme also includes a composition by the Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia (Rio 1767–1858), highly esteemed by Neukomm and occasionally described as "the Brazilian Mozart". He conducted the first performance of Mozart''s Requiem with Neukomm''s "Libera me" in the Igreja Nossa Senhora do Parto on 19 December 1819.The concert is a cooperation of Don Juan Archiv Wien with partners in Austria, Portugal, and Brazil: the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Divino Sospiro – Centro de Estudos Musicais Setecentistas de Portugal, and Musica Brasilis.Accordingly, the music will be performed in four locations: Vienna, Salzburg, Queluz/Lisbon, and Rio de Janeiro. While the partnering institutions'' concerts with commentaries are recorded especially for this occasion, the performances in Vienna will be broadcast live.

Diplomacy is a performance. The stage is set on the streets and palaces that centre upon the spaces of political power. As this volume explores, diplomacy as ''spectacle'' is no mere metaphor for political interaction, but an elevation of how it was practiced as performance. No other activity in the early modern world yielded to such an intensive flow of cultural exchange, artistic endeavour to be patronised, or expense to be lavished on the aggrandisement of events, entertainments, and festivities. Indeed, these efforts were orchestrated: the ambassadors were both impresarii and lead actors. Understanding the ambassador as a cultural mediator is the recognition of the power of diplomatic activity to transform culture through the process of mediation, and more, the appreciation of the sphere of diplomatic mediation as a most fertile ground for cultural invention.

Diplomats had multiple tasks: not only negotiating with the representatives of other states, but also mediating culture and knowledge, and not least elaborating reports on their observations of politics, society, and culture. Culture, according to the studies featured in this book, is defined as a complex sphere including aspects like systems of communication, literature, music, arts, education, and the creation of knowledge. This edition containing contributions from six conferences held in Vienna and Istanbul by the Don Juan Archiv Wien focuses on the complex diplomatic and cultural relations between the Ottoman Empire and Europe from the time of the early embassies to Istanbul up to "Tanzimat".