Original scientific paper
CHRONOLOGICAL SIGNIFIERS IN THE CONCERTOS OF JOHANN BAPTIST WANHAL
ALLAN BADLEY
; University of Auckland
Abstract
Unlike most of his Viennese contemporaries, Johann Baptist Wanhal published a
large proportion of his musical output including concertos. Nonetheless, many of his
concertos were not published and present a significant challenge in terms of establishing
their probable date of composition and, in some cases, their authenticity.
This paper explores the relationship between Wanhal’s published and unpublished
concertos and proposes that a number of structural and stylistic elements encountered
in the works can be used to refine the chronology of some of the more problematic
works. Among the factors considered are notational conventions, musical organization
at the phrase level, the treatment of the third ritornello section and formal types employed
in finales. The paper concludes that a more exact understanding of the chronology
of Wanhal’s concertos sheds valuable light on his development as a composer as
well as reflecting changing trends in concerto composition during the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries.
Keywords
Wanhal; Erdödy; Hofmann; Varaždin; Vienna; concerto; notation; ritornello function; music publishing
Hrčak ID:
131767
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2014.
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