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ottoman empire and european theatre vol. I

Michael Hüttler / H. E. Weidinger (ed.): Ottoman Empire & European Theatre Vol I. - Sultan Selim III and Mozart (1756-1808), Wien, 2010 (ISBN 9783643500137) - in print -

45 contributions

900 pages


Preliminary Content

 

With support of the Austrian Foreign Ministry and Deniz Bank AG.
The symposia were supported by the Turkish Embassy Vienna, the International Theatre Institute of the UNESCO - Austrian Centre and the Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul.

 

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Ouverture   

 

The Editors

Michael Hüttler &  Hans Ernst Weidinger (Vienna), Don Juan Archiv Wien

 

Symposium Vienna (April 25-26, 2008)    

Helga Dostal (Vienna), President of the UNESCO International Theatre Institut (ITI) / Center Austria
H. Exc. Selim Yenel (Vienna), The Ambassador of The Turkish Republic in Austria    
H. Exc. Emil Brix (Vienna), The Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Cultural Section    
Program

 

Symposium Istanbul (June 5-6, 2008)    

Christian Brunmayr (Istanbul), Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum Istanbul
Cemal Öztaş (Ankara), Deputy Secretary General of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey    
H. Exc. Heidemaria Gürer (Ankara), The Ambassador of The Republic of Austria in Turkey    
Program

 

The Academic Bass        

Wolfgang Greisenegger (Vienna), Universität Wien    
Ilber Ortaylı (Istanbul), Topkapı Museum Istanbul
Metin And (Ankara), Turkish Academy of Sciences    

 

To the Genius of Opera    

In Memoriam Leyla Gencer
By Zeynep Oral (Istanbul)    

 

Prologue: The Stage of Politics    

 

Historical Overview

Austria's Relations with the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century.    
By Betrand Michael Buchmann (Vienna)
The Ottoman Empire and Europe in the Wake of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century.    
By Alaaddin Yalcinkaya (Trabzon)

 

Act I: Diplomacy and Theater    

 

Earliest Performances    

European Drama and Theater in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul.    
By Walter Puchner (Athens)    
The Earliest Opera Performances in the Ottoman World and the Role of Diplomacy.
By Suna Suner (Istanbul/Vienna)

 

Ambassadors and Envoys

The Watcher and The Watched: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Diplomatic Visitors in Europe as Spectators and 'Performers'.
By Babür Turna (Ankara)
European Ambassadors at the Ottoman Court: The Imperial Protocol in the Eighteenth Century
By Günsel Renda (Istanbul)
"Auf türkische Art prächtig aufgeputzt": The Visit to Vienna by the Extraordinary Ottoman Envoy, Chaddi Mustafa Effendi, in the Year 1748.
By Frank Huss (Vienna)

 

Janissaries and Mehter - Turkish Military Music

The Mehter: Cultural Perceptions and Interpretations of Turkish Drum and Bugle Music Throughout History.
By William F. Parmentier (Istanbul)    

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Act II: Sultans and Serails    

 

Milan, London and Vienna    

Performing 'Turkish Sultans' on Milan's La Scala Stage: from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth Century.
By Alexandre Lhâa (Aix-en-Provence)
Representations of the Ottoman Seraglio on European Stages: Example London and Vienna 1776-1787.
By Esin Akalin (Istanbul)
From the Ambassador's Entrée to the Sultan's Arrival: Investigating Ottoman musical representations in Britain from Late Eighteenth to Mid-nineteenth Century
By Emre Aracı (London)

 

Copenhagen and Paris

The 'Turk' on Stage in Danish theater of the 18th Century.
By Bent Holm (Copenhagen)
The 'Turk' and the 'Parisienne': Favart's Soliman II ou Les Trois Sultanes (1761) to Les Trois Sultanes (Pathé, 1912).
By Isabelle Moindrot (Tours)

    

Act III: Central Europe    

 

From Paris to Vienna

Ottoman Representation and Theatrical 'alla turca': Visiting an Unknown Viennese Source of  'Turkish' Incidental Music.
By Thomas Betzwieser (Bayreuth)    
Representation of 'Turks' on the late 18th century's Viennese Stage - 'Oriental' Fantasies or Political Reality -  A research project based on the viennese repertoire.
By Michael Hüttler (Vienna)    
The Second Turkish Siege of Vienna (1683) Reflected in Its First Centenary: 'Anniversary Plays'  in the Pálffy Theatre-Library, Vienna.
By Matthias J. Pernerstorfer (Vienna)    

 

From Vienna to Lwiv

Mozart's Pupil and Friend - Franz Xaver Süßmayr's Sinfonia Turchesca (Vienna 1784/87), Il Turco in Italia (Prague 1794), Soliman II (Vienna 1799).
By Erich Duda (Vienna)    
Freemason, Mozart's Contemporary, Theatre-Director on the Edge: Friedrich Kratter (1758-1830) and Der Friede am Pruth (The Treaty of Prut, 1799). Cataloguing 'Mauerbach Komplex', Vienna.
By Gabriele Pfeiffer (Vienna)

 

Act IV: Mozart    

 

Mozart and Turkishness    

'In the Orient of Vienna': Mozart's Turkish Music (1771-1791) and the Theatrical Self.
By Matthew Head (London)
Getting emotional - Mozart's 'Turkish' Operas and the Emotive Aspect of Slavery.
By Marianne Tråvén (Uppsala)

 

Serail Revisited

From Zaide to Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Mozart's 'Turkish' Operas.
By Derek Weber (Vienna)
Mozart's 'Orient' on Stage.
By Nadja Kayali (Vienna)

 

The Elegant Voyager to The City of The Sublime Porte

'Turkish' and 'Exotic' References in the Fashion of the Second Half of the 18th Century.
By Annemarie Bönsch (Vienna)
European Influences on Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Imperial Fashion.
By Selin Ipek (Istanbul)
Mozart Goes to Constantinople! The Real Conditions of a Fictitious Journey.
By Käthe Springer-Dissmann (Vienna)

 

Act V: Sultan Selim III    

 

The Ottoman Empire 1756-1808    

A Composite Universe: Arts and Society in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century.    
By Tülay Artan (Istanbul)
'German Poet and Turkish Diplomat':  Murad Effendi, Ottoman Consul in Temesvár, and the Tragedy Selim III.
By Caroline Herfert (Vienna)    

 

Selim III: The Sultan as a Man of Letters and Arts    

Sultan Selim III as Patron of Arts.
By Günsel Renda (Istanbul)    
The Portrait of Sultan Selim III as a Man of Letters and Arts.
By Fatih Salgar (Istanbul)    
The Play World of Sultan Selim III.
By Aysin Candan (Istanbul)    

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Epilogue

 

The Hero in the Sultan's Harem    

Between Enlightenment and the Eastern world: Oberon by Christoph Martin Wieland
By Ulrike Schneider (Weimar)    
From The Prince of Denmark in the Sultan's Harem to Don Juan in the Royal Danish Chambers: The Forgotten Composer Friedrich Ludwig A. Kunzen (1761-1817).
By Hans-Peter Kellner (Copenhagen)    
'In Turchia novantuna': Don Juan Crossing the Ottoman World.
By Hans Ernst Weidinger (Vienna/Florence)    

 

Licenza Librettologica

 

German Language Theater Prints

Ottoman-Turkish Plays in 'Theater-Bibliothek Pálffy' and 'Mauerbach Komplex'


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