Index

Académie des Beaux-Arts, L’ (Paris) 249, 258, 266

Accademia degli Unisoni 56, 64

Accademia Filarmonica (Bologna) 133, 134, 135, 146

Allen, Hugh 293, 294

ancient Greece 4

anti-Semitism 162–3, 164

Appassionata (Beethoven) 159

Archilei, Vittoria 21

arias 34

and Caccini 28

and Jacquet de la Guerre 118

and Martines 131

and Strozzi 66, 70

Armide (Lully) 99

Arts Council 317

Austria 155–6

 

Bach, Johann Sebastian 159, 160, 167, 184

Baillot, Pierre 159

ballet 98

Ballet Club theatre 300, 302

Bartók, Béla 290, 291, 296

Basile, Adriana 30

Beach, Amy 7–8, 328

Beethoven, Ludwig van 6, 140, 149, 159

Bennett, Richard Rodney 301

Berlin 162, 165–6, 167, 170–1, 193, 198, 200

Berlioz, Hector 178, 261

Bertola, Aurelio de’ Georgi 150–1

Besnard, Albert 263–5

Bible, the 38–9, 117–18

Bigot, Marie 159

Bizzarrie poetiche (Poetic Oddities) (Fontei) 56

Blech Quartet 310

Blitzstein, Marc 282

Bologna 133, 134, 135, 145, 146

Boosey, Lesley 299, 319

Bosso, Antonio 74–5

Botti, Maria 26

Boulanger, Ernest 243, 244

Boulanger, Lili 243, 244, 245–6, 247–8, 282–5

and Besnard 264–5, 266

and death 281–2

and illness 253–4, 278–9

and Prix de Rome 250–1, 253, 255–62

Boulanger, Lili (works):

Clairières dans le ciel (Clearings in the Sky) 263, 266, 272

Dans l’immense tristesse (In Immense Sadness) 274

De Profundis (Psalm 130) 272

Du fond de l’abîme (From the Depths of the Abyss) 272–4, 333

Faust et Hélène 257, 260–1, 269

Hymne au soleil (Hymn to the Sun) 254–5

La princesse Maleine 267, 270, 271, 272, 273, 276–8, 280–1

Marche gaie 275–6

Pour les funérailles d’un soldat (For a Soldier Burial) 251–2, 269

Vieille prière bouddhique: prière quotidienne pour tout l’univers (An Old Buddhist Prayer: A Daily Prayer for Peace and Humanity) 279–80

Boulanger, Nadia 2, 243–6, 247, 248, 252, 262

and First World War 268

and Lili 274–5, 277–8, 281, 282–3

and Prix de Rome 249–50

and women’s roles 255, 258

Boulanger, Raïssa 243–4, 245, 250, 263, 326

Bourgeat, Fernand 255–6

Bouwens, Jean 265–6, 267–8

Bovia, Laura 40

Brahms, Johannes 236, 237–8, 239, 241

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 293, 299, 310, 313, 317

Britten, Benjamin 288, 298, 302, 303, 317

Bronzini, Cristoforo 37, 38, 39

Bruneau, Alfred 261

Bulgarelli, Marianna 137

Buonarroti, Michelangelo 17–18, 19, 21, 23, 24–5, 27, 47–8

and gender poetry 29

Burney, Charles 86, 128–9, 139

Burney, Susan 143

Byrd, William 290

 

Caccini, Francesca 6, 17–18, 45–6, 47, 48, 331

and Bronzini 37, 38, 39

and marriage 40–4

and Medici court 20, 21–7, 30–1, 50–1

and singing 13–14, 15–16

Caccini, Francesca (works):

Il primo libro delle musiche (The First Book of Music) 27–9, 30

La liberazione di Ruggerio dall’isola d’Alcina (The Liberation of Roger from the Island of Alcina) 11–12, 33–5, 36

La stiava (The Slavegirl) 18–19, 30

Caccini, Giulio 13, 15, 16–17, 30, 326

Il rapimento di Cefalo (The Abduction of Cephalus) 14

Le nuove musiche 12, 18, 34

Caccini, Pompeo 12, 13, 19

Caccini, Settimia 13, 15–16, 21

Calzabighi, Ranieri de’ 149

cantatas 166, 257–8

and Jacquet de la Guerre 116–20

and Strozzi 70, 83, 86

Capriccio (Mendelssohn) 209

Carlo II, Duke of Mantua 73–5

carnivals 17–18, 20–1

Castiglione, Baldassare 18

Caussade, Georges 248, 251, 252, 253, 254, 269

and Prix de Rome 256, 257, 258

Cavalli, Francesco 55, 62–3, 65, 84, 98

Cessac, Catherine 123

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine 93, 106

chastity 38

child prodigies 91–2, 205–6, 207–8, 209–10

Chopin, Frederic 210, 215

chorales 184

Christianity 163–4

Christine de Lorraine, Grand-Duchess of Tuscany 17, 18, 19–20, 22, 24, 30, 50–1

and La Crocetta 46, 49

and politics 35–6

Church, the 21–2, 69

Cinq-Mars, Henri de 71–2

Clark, Edward 299

Clarke, Rebecca 2

class 162, 208–9

Clemenza di Tito, La (Mozart) 180

Comité Franco-Américain du Conservatoire National 268

Composers’ Guild of Great Britain 317

concubinage 60–2

convents 46–7, 48–50, 55, 59

Corelli, Arcangelo 112, 114

Cosimo II, Grand-Duke of Tuscany 20, 22, 24

Counter-Reformation 29

counterpoint 101, 160–1, 165, 222, 226, 305

Couperin, François 114, 120

courtesans 4, 57, 58–9, 68, 75–6, 87

Cusick, Suzanne 326–7

 

Dafne (Rinuccini) 20

‘Damenmusik’ 175

D’Annunzio, Gabrielle 246

Davidsbündlertänze (R. Schumann) 219

Debussy, Claude 260–1, 266, 268

Decker, Pauline 174

Della dignità, & nobilità delle donne (Of the Dignity and Nobility of Women) (Bronzini) 37, 38, 39, 41

D’Este, Giulia 17

D’Indy, Vincent 256, 268–9

Dirichlet, Gustav 177

Donne, John 322

Donne musiche parlano dall’Inferno (Women Musicians Speak from Hell) (Salvadori) 25

dowries 13, 16, 39, 40, 55, 59

Dresden 208–9, 226, 227, 229–30

dress 68, 76–7, 150

Droysen, Edward 167, 169, 172

Dublin 287, 288, 289

 

Eleonora of Mantua 82

Eliot, George 237

Elizabeth II, Queen 317

Elvers, Rudolf 3

English folk music 290–1

Ercole amante (Hercules in Love) (Cavalli) 98

Euridice (Peri) 14–15, 18, 83

Evelyn, John 68

 

Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis (Vaughan Williams) 291

Farrenc, Louise 325

Fauré, Gabriel 243, 244, 247, 248, 251, 279

femininity 202, 259

feminism 2–3, 247

Ferdinand III of Austria 82

Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany 16, 20

Ferdinando II, Grand-Duke of Tuscany 24, 43, 48, 50

Festa della Salute 54, 55

Festival of Britain 316

First Quartet (Britten) 311

First World War 265, 266, 268, 269–70, 271, 275, 281

Fischer, Marie 246

Florence 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 31–3, 40–1

Fontanges, Duchess of 96, 97, 108

Fontei, Nicole 56

fortepiano 147–8

France 31, 106, 113–14, 156; see also Paris

Francesco I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany 16

Franck, César 261

Franco, Veronica 58–9, 61

‘free writing’ 322

fugues 161

 

Gade, Niels 192

Gaelic Symphony (Beach) 7

Gagliano, Marco da 23

Galileo Galilei 24, 47–8

Gans, Eduard 167

gender 28–9, 37, 39, 67–8, 201–3; see also women

Gentien, Paul 269–70

George VI, King 317

Gluck, Christoph Willibald 149

Goethe, Johan Wolfgang von 162–3, 167, 188, 210

Gounod, Charles 183, 194

Gow, Dorothy 303

‘great confinement, the’ 111

 

Habsburg Empire 31, 140, 155, 156

Hallinger, Marie-Julie 243

Hasse, Johann Adolph 131

Haydn, Joseph 138, 139, 140, 146, 147, 149

Henry IV, King of France 14–15

Hensel, Fanny 3, 6, 159–62, 164–70, 174–8, 189–93

and Clara Schumann 240

and composition 182–4, 186–7

and death 198–200

and Keudall 193–4

and legacy 200–3

and marriage 170–3

and publishing 187–9, 190–1, 194–7

and Sonntagsmusiken 179–81

Hensel, Fanny (works):

Cholera Cantata 173

Das Jahr 184–6, 331

Dein ist mein herz (Thine is my heart) 181–2

overture 173

Ponte Molle 183

Villa Medici 183

Hensel, Wilhelm 166–7, 168–9, 170–1, 174, 199, 200, 326

and illustrations 185

and publishing 189

Heuvelmans, Lucienne 270, 271

high heels 68, 76

Hindemith, Paul 290

Hinrischen, Max 306, 307

Holst, Gustav 291–2, 297

Holy Week 21–2

Howell, James 57–8

Humboldt, Alexander von 166

 

Ile Saint-Louis (Paris) 89, 90, 100, 112

Incogniti 53–4, 56, 57, 64, 72–3

and opera 70, 71

Inquisition 24, 29, 47, 58, 59

Ireland 287, 289, 307, 318

Italy 31, 43, 113, 183; see also Bologna; Florence; Venice

 

Jacquet, Anne 93, 100, 109–10

Jacquet, Claude 90, 91

Jacquet de la Guerre, Élisabeth 6, 89–90, 91–3, 95–7, 99–100, 111–12, 120–5

and portrait 110–11

Jacquet de la Guerre, Élisabeth (works):

Cantates françoises 118–20

Cantates françoises sur des sujets tirez de l’Écriture (Sacred Cantatas) 116–18

Céphale et Procris 105–7, 108

Jeux à l’honneur de la victoire (Games in Honour of the Victory) 103–4, 108

Les pièces de clavecin: Livre I 101–3

Pièces de clavecin qui peuvent se joüer sur le viollon (Pieces for Harpsichord which can be Played on the Violin) 112–13

Sonata No. 1 in D minor 333

Sonnatta della signora de la Guerre 114–16

Janáček, Leoš 295

Jirák, Karel Boleslav 295

Joachim, Joseph 236, 237, 238, 240

Joseph II, Emperor of Austria 129, 130, 155

Judaism 162–3, 200–1

 

Kassia 4

Kelly, Michael 141–2

Keudall, Robert von 193–4, 196

Kinkel, Johanna 5–6, 181

Klingemann, Karl 187–8

 

La Crocetta convent 46–7, 48, 49–50

La Fontaine 95

La Guerre, Marin 100–1, 105, 108–9, 112, 121–2, 326

Lambert, Constant 290

Lamotte, Antoine Houdar de 116, 117

Lang, Josephine 162

Lark Ascending, The (Vaughan Williams) 290

LeFanu, William 297–8, 302–3, 309, 314, 326

Leipzig 205, 206, 208, 221

Lemare, Iris 299–301

Lenau, Nikolaus 181–2

lesbianism 36

Leygues, Jeanne 275

libretti 99, 105–6

Lied ohne Worte (Songs without Words) 181

lieder 9, 166, 176, 181

Liszt, Franz 181, 215, 237

London 146, 287, 289

Loredan, Giovan Francesco 64, 71, 72

Louis XIV, King of France 89, 92, 93, 98, 99, 120–1

and Jacquet de la Guerre 101–4, 106–7, 108, 115–16, 117, 118, 119–20, 124

and mistresses 94, 95, 96, 97

Louis XV, King of France 121

Lowenbach, Jan 312

Lucca 43–4, 45–6

Lully, Jean-Baptiste 97–9, 103, 104–5

Lutyens, Elisabeth 290, 299–300, 303, 308–9, 318, 320

 

Macnaghten, Anne 299–301, 302, 316, 324

Maconchy, Elizabeth ‘Betty’ 6, 287–9, 301–2, 305–6, 314–15, 317–20, 327–9

and marriage 297–8

and RCM 291–2

and Second World War 312–13

and tuberculosis 302–3

and Vaughan Williams 290–1

Maconchy, Elizabeth ‘Betty’ (works):

Concertino for Piano and Orchestra 293–4

Departure, The 322

Dialogue 308, 309

Fifth Quartet 315–16

First Quartet 302

Fourth Quartet 310–11

Land, The 296, 297

Music for Strings 323–4

My Dark Heart 323, 330

Piano Concerto 295–6

Proud Thames 317

Reflections 321–2

Second Quartet 303–5

Sofa, The 320–1

String Quartet No. 5 332

Tenth Quartet 323

Third String Quartet 306–7, 308

‘Voice of the City, The’ 311

Maeterlinck, Maurice 266–7, 270, 271, 273, 276–7

Mahler, Gustav 298

Maintenon, Françoise d’Aubigne, Madame de 95, 96, 107, 117

manuscript writing 114–15

Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples and Sicily 132

Maria Magdalena, Arch-Duchess of Austria 22, 24, 31–3, 36

Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria 130, 134, 135, 141, 150, 153

Marie de Lorraine, Madame de la Guise 93, 110

‘Marinist’ texts 67, 72

Maron, Anton von 145

marriage 4, 5, 40, 55, 59

Martines, Antonia 130, 152, 155, 156, 326

Martines, Marianna 6, 127–9, 130–4, 135–7, 145–6, 149–52, 157

and Metastasio 137–8, 139–40, 152–3

and private concerts 141–3, 144

Martines, Marianna (works):

Dixit dominus (Psalm 109/10) 134–5, 146

Isacco figura del Rendentore (Isaac, Figure of the Redeemer) 148

Mass in C 156

Miserere 146–7

Overture 149

Overture in C 332

Martines, Nicolo 129–30

Martini, Giovanni Battisti 145, 146

Marx, Karl 5–6

Mattei, Saverio 131–3, 146–7

Maximilian-Emmanuel II, Elector of Bavaria 119

Medici, Anna de’ 69, 74–5

Medici, Carlo de’ 30, 33

Medici, Catherine de’ 35–6

Medici, Margherita de’ 31

Medici, Maria Maddalena de’ 46

Medici, Marie de’ 14–16

Medici-Orsini, Isabella 32, 36

Medicis, the 11, 12, 17, 20–5, 29–30, 93

and famiglia 39–40, 45

Mendelssohn, Abraham 159–60, 161–4, 172

Mendelssohn, Fanny, see Hensel, Fanny

Mendelssohn, Felix 5, 159–60, 161, 162, 163, 164–5, 193

and Clara Schumann 209, 210, 217, 226

and Fanny 167–8, 169–70, 171, 172–7, 188–9, 190–1, 194–5, 196, 199

and Leipzig 208

Mendelssohn, Rebecka 167, 169–70, 177–8, 182

Menuhin, Yehudi 232

Metastasio 136–8, 139–40, 141, 152–3, 326

Michaelerhaus (Vienna) 127, 129, 136–7, 141–2

Michaelerkirche (Vienna) 127, 129, 156

Michelangelo 29

Miserere (Allegri) 182–3

Molière 95, 98, 122

Mollier, Louis de 92

Montespan, Françoise Athénaïs, Madame de 93, 94–5, 96, 97, 99, 100, 107

and Palais-Royal 108

Monteverdi, Claudio 18, 57, 62–3

Moscheles, Ignaz 165

motherhood 4, 5, 41–2, 122, 234, 314–15

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 129, 135, 140, 142–3, 144, 149

and fortepiano 147, 148

and Hensel 179–80

and Maconchy 321–2

 

Naples 132, 133

Napoleon Bonaparte 155, 156

Nazis 201

Novello, Clara 180

nuns 4, 46, 48–50

 

opera 35, 98, 104–5, 148

and Boulanger 261, 271

and Jacquet de la Guerre 103–4, 105–7

and Maconchy 320–1, 322

and Martines 149

and Venice 54, 63, 70, 84–5

Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel 186

oratorios 127

Orléans, Philippe de France, Duke of 108

Orsini, Paolo Giordano 32

Orsini, Virginio 25

 

Palais-Royal (Paris) 98, 99, 107–8

Paris 89–90, 98, 124, 243, 244, 289; see also Versailles

Paris Conservatoire 248–50, 251, 256

partimenti 139

patronage 19, 24–7, 62–3

and Jacquet de la Guerre 93–4, 95–6

and Martines 137–8, 139–40

Paulus (Mendelssohn) 180, 186–7

Pears, Peter 322

Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy) 266

Peri, Jacobo 14–15, 18, 21, 30, 83

Petrarch 323

piano 181, 182, 184, 192, 209–10

and women 231–2, 233

see also fortepiano

Piano Quartet (Mozart) 144

Piano Sonata No. 3 (Brahms) 239

Pichler, Caroline 152, 154

Piré, Miki 254, 256, 262, 273, 326

plague 45–6, 54, 55

Playford, John 12

poetry 58

Poland 34–5

politics 17, 19–20, 30, 31, 198, 329

and Paris 107

and women 35–7

Porpora, Nicolò 138, 139

Prague 295, 297

Prix de Rome 243, 248–51, 253, 255–62, 263

Promenade Concerts (Proms) 296, 297, 308–9, 323–4

Prussia 192–3, 198, 201

psalms 127–8, 132, 134–5, 272

publishing 83–4, 187–9, 190–1, 194–7, 214–15, 306; see also Ricordi

Pugno, Raoul 246, 250, 252, 256, 262

Purcell, Henry 290, 310–11

‘pure voice’ music 71

 

quills 114–15

Quinault 99

 

Rafaelli, Tomasso 43–5

rape 59–60

Ravel, Maurice 243, 252, 268

recitative 18, 34, 66, 118

religion 162–4, 272–3, 279–80; see also Church, the; convents; Judaism

Renzi, Anna 54, 64–5, 72, 85

Requiem (Cavalli) 84

Requiem, K626 (Mozart) 156

Ricordi 261, 267, 281

and Maeterlinck 269–70, 271, 273, 276, 277

Robertson, Jeremy Dale 328

Rochechouart, Gabrielle de 92, 95

Rockwell, Paul 275

romanesca 28, 139

rondos 147

Rovere, Vittoria della 48, 50, 51, 63

Royal College of Music (RCM) 287, 289, 291–2, 293, 294, 323

 

Sackville-West, Vita 296

St Matthew’s Passion (Bach) 167

Sainte-Chapelle (Paris) 101

salons 109–10, 179, 191

salterios 131–2

Salvadori, Andrea 25–6

Samuel, Rhian 4

Santa Sofia church 77–8

Sant’Orsola (Gagliano) 23, 35

Schmid, Anton 153

Schoenberg, Arnold 299, 318

Schubert, Franz 149

Schulhoff, Erwin 295, 312

Schumann, Clara 2, 6, 205–10, 202, 240–1

and composition 221–2, 227–9, 234–5

and Mendelssohn 162

and performance 225–6, 230–1, 233–4, 236–7, 238–40

and publishing 214–15

and Robert 211–14, 218–21, 223–5, 229–30, 235–6, 298

Schumann, Clara (works):

Piano Concerto 210–11, 217–18

Piano Trio 226, 227

Romance in B minor 239

Scherzo, opus 10 215–16

Three Fugues on Themes of J.S. Bach 333

Schumann, Robert 5, 184, 206, 207, 209, 210, 241

and Clara 211–22, 223–5, 298

and mental health 226, 227, 234, 235–6, 237–8

Sea Sketches (Williams) 316

Second Piano Concerto (Mendelssohn) 168

Second World War 307–9, 311–13

‘sheer music’ 71

Signorini, Giovanni Battista 40, 42–3, 44, 326

Signorini, Margherita 41–2, 43, 44, 45, 50, 51

singers 13–14, 38, 85

Society for the Promotion of New Music 317

sonatas 112–14, 115–16, 120, 128, 192

Sophia of Braunschweig 82

Spain 31

Spohr, Louis 164

sprezzatura 18

staging 23

Steffens, Emilie 230–1

Stein, Johann Andreas 147

Stravinsky, Igor 290

string quartets 302, 305

Strozzi, Barbara 6, 53, 54, 55–7, 59–60, 61–2, 75–80

and Carlo II, Duke of Mantua 73–5

and compositions 66–70, 71–2

and death 86–7

and money 80–2

and publishing 82–4, 85–6

Strozzi, Barbara (works):

Che si può fare 332

Il primo libro de’ madrigali (First Book of Madrigals) 63–4, 65

Strozzi, Bernardo 57

Strozzi, Giulio 53–4, 55–7, 78–9, 326

La finta pazza (The Fake Madwoman) 54, 59, 84–5

and Renzi 64–5

symphonies 149

Symphony in D minor (Franck) 261

Synge, J.M. 323

 

Tarabotti, Archangela 64

theme and variations 147

Theophilus, Emperor 4

Thiellemann, Christian 329, 330

Three Pieces for Orchestra (Lutyens) 308–9

Tillet, Titon du 123–4

Trépagne, René 102, 121, 122

Troy, François de 110–11

twelve-note technique 310, 318

 

Urban VIII, Pope 30, 31

 

Vallière, Louise de la 108

Vaughan Williams, Ralph 290–1, 292–3, 294, 299, 312, 326

Venice 18, 53–5, 57–8, 77, 80–1

and courtesans 68, 75–6

and music 83, 84–5

Venier, Domenico 58

Versailles 93–4, 95, 96–7, 99–100

Viardot, Pauline 244

Victoria, Queen 200

Vidal, Paul 244, 248, 256

Vidman brothers 54

Vidman, Giovanni Paolo 59, 60, 61–2, 64, 79, 80

Vienna 127, 129, 133–4, 146, 155–6, 215

and music 140–5, 148

Villa Medici (Rome) 249, 261, 262, 263–5, 266, 271

Villa Poggio Imperiale (Florence) 11, 12, 31–3, 36

violins 113, 232

Vivaldi, Antonio 83

 

Wagner, Richard 208, 329, 330

Walton, William 317

Weir, Judith 330

Well-Tempered Clavier (Bach) 159

Widor, Charles 249–50

widowhood 42–3, 44–5

Wieck, Clara, see Schumann, Clara

Wieck, Friedrick 205–7, 208–9, 211–12, 220, 222, 326

Williams, Grace 291–2, 295, 303, 306–7, 313, 316, 319–20

Wladislaw Sigismund Vasa, Crown-Prince of Poland 11, 31, 34–5, 42

women 4–5, 123, 172–3, 318–19, 325–6, 329–30

and composing 8–9

and dress 150

and First World War 277

and instruments 231–3

and merit 19

and music 154–5, 175, 201–3, 299–301, 326–7

and politics 35–7

and Prix de Rome 248–9, 250, 259–60

and sexuality 1–2, 37–9, 66–8

see also concubinage; courtesans; motherhood

Wood, Sir Henry 296, 308

Workers’ Music Association 311

 

Ysaÿe, Eugène 246

 

Zelter, Carl Friedrich 160–1, 162–3