Michael Robertson - The Courtly Consort Suite in German-Speaking Europe, 1650–1706

THE COURTLY CONSORT SUITE IN GERMAN-SPEAKING EUROPE, 16501706

To my wife, Barbara

Michael Robertson
University of Leeds, UK

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Robertson, Michael
The Courtly Consort Suite in German-Speaking Europe, 16501706 1. Lully, Jean Baptiste, 16321687 Influence. 2. Chamber music Germany 17th century History and criticism. 3. Instrumental ensembles Germany History 17th century. 4. Dance music Germany 17th century History and criticism.
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785'.00943'09032

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Robertson, Michael, 1949
The Courtly Consort Suite in German-Speaking Europe, 16501706 / Michael Robertson.
p. cm.
1. Suite (Music) 17th century. 2. Suite (Music) 18th century. 3. Dance music Europe, German-speaking 17th century History and criticism. 4. Dance music Europe, German-speaking 18th century History and criticism. I. Title.
ML3420.2.R63 2008
784.18'83094309032dc22

2008050806

ISBN 9780754664512 (hbk)

Shelf marks for the Universitetsbibilioteket at Uppsala have been revised in order to match the six-digit format now used in the online Dben database, www.musik. uu.se/duben/Duben.php.

The origins of much of this work are in my 2004 PhD dissertation, The consort suite in the German-speaking lands, 16601705 . My supervisor throughout the time of my research for this was Peter Holman and, in the years since, he has continued to give me help and encouragement. I am deeply grateful to him. I am grateful to David Marsh for his help with Latin translations, to Laura Perrin for her help with French translations and to Ursula Burchette for her help with German translations. I have also been helped in various ways by Simon McVeigh, Samantha Owens, John Butt, Stephen Rose, John and Rachel Cardell-Oliver, and Andrew Wooley. My visits and enquiries to various libraries and private collections have been met with unfailing help and courtesy, but I would particularly like to thank the following: The British Library (and in particular Nicholas Bell), Cambridge University Library, Universitetsbiblioteket Uppsala, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbttel, die Musikalien der Grafen von Schnborn-Wiesentheid (and in particular the curator, Frau Dr Dangel-Hofmann), Pepys Library, Magdalene College Cambridge, Christopher Hogwood, Niederschsische Landesbibliothek Hanover, sterreichische Nationalbibliothek Vienna, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, Bibliothek des Evangelischen Theologischen Semiars Herborn, and Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel.

Finally, to my wife, Barbara, I owe the greatest debt of gratitude. She has been a constant source of help and support throughout the time that it has taken me to produce this work. Without her, it would not have been possible.

Michael Robertson, September, 2008 .

It is likely that most of the composers and courts considered in this book would have thought of themselves as being German, even if they were nominal citizens and members of the Holy Roman Empire. For the purposes of this study, we can describe the German lands in a geographical sense as stretching from the Baltic and North Sea coasts in the north to the Bavarian lands of the ruling Wittelsbach family in the south, and from the borders of the Spanish Netherlands in the west to Austria and the Kingdom of Bohemia in the east.