TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
9th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music
ABSTRACT
Corelli's Music in Spanish Royal Chapel
Pablo-L. Rodríguez
As regards the dissemination of Corelli's music in Europe, Spain has usually
been left aside. The autarchy of Spanish musicology has brought about an
almost exclusive focus on national topics; this is probably one of the
principal reasons of the absence of research on international repertory
in the Spanish musicological agenda. The first step towards a preliminary
report on the presence of Corelli's music in Spanish archives and libraries
was made by Craig H. Russell in the 1980s. But since then, there has been
no research on the institutions and contexts in which this music was performed
and listened.
My paper will be based on a newly found source of the Corelli's sonata
for trumpet, violins and continuo preserved in the Segovia Cathedral archive
and probably related to the late seventeenth-century Spanish Royal Chapel.
This paper will explore the performing context of this work in the madrilian
court. It will also show how the presence of many Italian violinists in
the court chapel in the 1680s and 1690s eased the reception of the Italian
trio sonata for which Corelli's music was probably a fashionable model.
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