Arti musices, Vol. 47 No. 1-2, 2016.
Original scientific paper
Habsburg Queens of Poland and Music at the Polish Royal Court at the End of 16th and in the 17th Centuries
Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska
; Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Abstract
The main heroines of the article are Austrian archduchesses, wives of Kings of Poland: Anna and Constance of Styria, two consecutive wives of Sigismund III Vasa (1595–98, 1605–31), Cecilia Renata, daughter of Emperor Ferdinand II and wife to Ladislaus IV (1637–44), and Eleanora Maria Josefa, daughter of Emperor Ferdinand III and wife to Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1670–73). The main objective is to show how the royal marriages strengthened cultural ties between the Polish royal court and the courts from which the archduchesses arrived. Special emphasis is placed on the gradual »Italianization« of music culture at the Austrian and Polish courts, and its significance for the adaptation and dissemination of opera as a genre in Poland.
Keywords
17th century; Poland; court music; court opera; royal marriage; Anna of Styria; Constance of Styria; Sigismund III Vasa; Cecilia Renata Habsburg; Ferdinand II Habsburg; Ladislaus IV Vasa; Eleanora Maria Josefa; Ferdinand III Habsburg; Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki
Hrčak ID:
173151
URI
Publication date:
27.1.2017.
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