Lecture by Alice Jarrard
WITH MUSICAL INTERLUDES BY CAPELLA DE LA TORRE
Presented in collaboration with the Goethe Institut.
Albrecht Dürer’s relationship to Italy inspired him, of course, but also Italians in his own time, writers reimagining the Italian Renaissance in the late 19th century, and thinkers today. This talk, by art historian Alice Jarrard, examines Dürer’s role in the 19th-century construction of the Renaissance as a historical phenomenon, and considers some of the German writers and scholars who cast Dürer in the role of the heroic protagonist who delivered Italian inventions north of the Alps.
Inspired by the occasion of the Albertina show at the National Gallery of Art, it then looks closely at a few of Dürer’s works and their complicated relationship to Italian art and culture. How does one chart artistic reception? By what means can we gauge artistic influence? The answers are not so simple.
German ensemble Capella de la Torre is renowned for their performances centered around historical double-reed instruments.
*ABOUT COVER IMAGE: Self-portrait of the Artist, 1498 – Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Embassy of Italy
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Washington, DC 20008
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ALICE JARRARD
Alice Jarrard’s interests in cross-cultural artistic exchange have long focused upon the relationship between Italy and other European cultures. Her book Architecture as Performance in Seventeenth-century Europe (Cambridge, 2003) looked at the Este court in Modena, examining the politicized, highly international context of artistic exchange and architectural experience during the Thirty Year’s War. As an art historian, she held an Associate Professorship at Harvard, and has received grants from foundations including the American Academy in Rome, the Getty, the Radcliffe Institute, and the Clark. She presently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is writing a book about early modern opera houses, technology, and the aesthetic of wonder.
CAPELLA DE LA TORRE
Capella de la Torre is a group of musicians who have made a name for themselves as specialists in historical performance practice. The ensemble’s aim is to give listeners an immediate experience of the rich and hitherto neglected repertoire of mediaeval and renaissance music by performing it to a professional standard.
The name “de la Torre” has a double meaning. In the first place, it pays homage to the Spanish composer Francisco de la Torre, who wrote his “Danza Alta” at the beginning of the 16th century. This is probably the most famous piece for what was then known as “capella alta”, an ensemble of wind instruments such as shawms, dulcians, sackbuts and cornetti. Capella de la Torre has specialized in music written for the “capella alta”. Secondly, the name may be taken in a literal sense: “de la Torre” means “from the tower” and groups of wind players (Spanish: ministriles) often played on towers or balconies at festivals and other official occasions. “Torres de los Ministriles” are still to be found in many Spanish towns today.
Capella de la Torre does not confine itself to Spanish music, however, but also plays music written throughout the rest of Europe for the “hauts instruments” or “loud instruments”. In general, it tries to breathe life into the old traditions of “ministriles”, “piffari” and “Stadtpfeiffer”.
MUSICAL PROGRAM: “Imagining the Renaissance”
Music from the Time of Albrecht Dürer.
Tylman Susato 1510-1570
Anonym/ Improvisation
Heinrich Isaac 1450-1517
Thoinot Arbeau 1519-1595
Bartolomeo Tromboncino 1470-1535
Cancionero de Palacio ca. 1500
Cancionero de Uppsala ca. 1510
Josquin Desprez 1450-1521
Fabritio Caroso 1525-1605
Adrian Willaert 1490-1562Morisque
Basse Danse Aliot Nouvelle
Suesser Vater Herre Gott
Belle qui tiens ma vie
Ostinato vos seguire
Propignan de Melyor
Verbum caro factum est
In te domine speravi
Canarios
Vecchie Letrose
Capella de la Torre:
Birgit Bahr, alto shawm and recorder
Kentaro Wada, sackbut
Annette Hils, dulcian and recorder
Peter A. Bauer, percussion
Katharina Bäuml, shawms and direction
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: capella-de-la-torre.de
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