1st Edition
Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture Apostles of a Brighter Future
This volume focuses on the circumstances of women’s music-making in the vibrant and diverse environment of the Czech lands during the nineteenth century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, while also considering more well-known works and composers from new woman-centric perspectives. It shows how the unique environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, intersects with gender to reveal hitherto unexplored networks that challenge the methodological nationalism of music studies as well as the discipline’s continued emphasis on singular canonical figures. The main areas of enquiry address aspects of performance and identity both within the Czech lands and abroad; women’s impact on social life with a view to different private, semiprivate, and public contexts and networks; and compositional aesthetics in musical works by and about women, analysed through the lens of piano works, song, choir music, and opera, always with the reception of these works in mind.
Introduction
ANJA BUNZEL AND CHRISTOPHER CAMPO-BOWEN
PART 1
Performance and Identity
1 Bohemian Divas and the Rise of Czech National Consciousness
MARTIN NEDBAL, UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, USA
2 Sweet Street Music for Petty Alms: The Barrel-Organ Career of Anna Balcarová in the Poděbrady Region, 1889–1905
RISTO PEKKA PENNANEN, SIBELIUS ACADEMY, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS HELSINKI, FINLAND
3 The Australian Career of Soprano Gabriella Roubalová ("Madame Boema")
JANICE B. STOCKIGT, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
4 Eliška Krásnohorská and Czech Operatic Historiography: Reconciling the Paradox of Women’s Authorial Voices
BRIAN S. LOCKE, WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, USA
PART 2
Institutional Structures and Networks
5 Women in the Musical Culture of Viennese Czechs (Slavs) in the Nineteenth Century: Towards a Social Typology
VIKTOR VELEK, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS AND MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA, CZECH REPUBLIC
6 Josef Hellmesberger’s Female Students from Moravia and Their Presence in European Musical Life
ANNKATRIN BABBE, ALBAN BERG FOUNDATION, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
7 The "Disorder It Created": Women’s Education at the Prague Conservatory in the Nineteenth Century
FREIA HOFFMANN, SOPHIE DRINKER INSTITUTE, BREMEN / UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBERG, GERMANY
8 The Three Ebert Sisters: Wilhelmine Tomaschek, Juliane Glaser, and Elisabeth Hansgirg
MARKÉTA KABELKOVÁ, NATIONAL MUSEUM – CZECH MUSEUM OF MUSIC, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
9 Reminiscences of Past Sounds: The Musical Autograph Album (1813–1852) of Elise Gräfin von Schlik
HENRIKE ROST, UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
PART 3
Reception and Analysis
10 Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach and Her Piano Works
JANA LENGOVÁ, INSTITUTE OF MUSICOLOGY, SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BRATISLAVA, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
11 "My Soul Is Filled with Songs": Josefina Brdlíkováas a Song Composer
ANJA BUNZEL, INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
12 Singing Women and the "Woman Question" in the Czech Lands
KELLY ST. PIERRE, WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA / THE CENTER FOR THEORETICAL STUDIES, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
13 "Man-Hungry Amazon" or "Treacherous Trumpeter"? A Case Study of the Sources for and Reception of Fibichand Schulzová’s Šárka
EMMA PARKER, INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR, SANTA BARBARA, USA
14 Ježibaba’s Ambiguities: Binaries, Power, and Queer Alterity in Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka
CHRISTOPHER CAMPO-BOWEN, VIRGINIA TECH SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS, USA
15 Afterword: Dvořák’s Women
MICHAEL BECKERMAN, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, USA
Biography
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.
