The Court Chapels of the Tyrolean Line: From Archduke Ferdinand II to Archduke Ferdinand Charles

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Sara Pecknold

Yayın yılı:

2020

Yayıncı:

BRILL

Throughout the centuries of Habsburg rule, the region of Tyrol was subject to varying degrees of control from the imperial court. However, for a century of its history – from the ascension of Archduke Ferdinand II in 1564 until the untimely death of Sigismund Franz in 1665 – the court of Innsbruck was ruled by its own independent sovereign. During this brief chapter of Habsburg history, the Tyrolean archdukes promoted a vigorous festal and musical culture. This essay explores the musical features that distinguished each Archduke’s individual reign. For example, the tenure of Ferdinand II (r. 1564-95) was marked by excellence in liturgical music and the first flourishing of virtuosic Italian chamber music. Ferdinand’s nephew and successor, Maximilian III (r. 1602-18), cultivated a nearly exclusively religious musical culture, due to his dual position as Tyrolean Archduke and Deutschmeister of the Teutonic Order. Under Leopold V (r. 1619-32) and his wife Claudia de’ Medici, the Kapelle continued to flourish, while theatrical and chamber music again gained prominence. The pinnacle of Tyrolean musical life was reached during the reign of Ferdinand Charles (r. 1646-62), whose lavish expenditures established a splendid operatic life at court. After the death of Ferdinand Charles’s brother Sigismund Franz, the court of Innsbruck again fell under Viennese control, and most of its musicians were taken to the imperial court.

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