Volume 21, Number 2 fall 2017 NEWSLETTER OF THE Mozart Society of America Inside this Issue: President’s Message, by Paul Corneilson 1 Book review: Morality and Viennese Opera in Announcements 2 the Age of Mozart and Beethoven, reviewed MSA’s Conference: Mozart and Modernity 3 by Thomas Bauman 13 The Heartz Endowment Continues to Grow 4 iBook review: The Mozart Project, reviewed “Domenico Guardasoni’s Prague Conducting Score by Emily Wuchner 14 for Così fan tutte,” by Martin Nedbal 5 Book review: Mozart’s Music of Friends, reviewed “Twin Portraits: Morichelli and Martín y Soler by Floyd Grave 15 in Vienna, 1787,” by John A Rice 11 President’s Message Paul Corneilson The Mozart Society of America is very active draw your attention to MSA’s upcoming biennial conference these days, and I hope you all enjoy the spe- with the theme “Mozart and Modernity,” which will be held cial booklet with an essay plus illustrations of at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, the the Prague Estates Theater, written by Martin weekend of October 20–22 (Read about the conference and Nedbal We are also enclosing a print of the program on pages 3 and 4 ) This should be a fine time of the theater plans, which is suitable for framing I year to visit Ontario and celebrate Mozart’s impact on mu- want to thank the Publications Committee, especially Bruce sic history in the modern era The conference will conclude Alan Brown and John A Rice, and the designer Dean Born- on Sunday morning with a brief business meeting, in lieu of stein, for assisting with this handsome booklet It would be having it during the American Musicological Society (AMS) nice to have publications on other theaters from Mozart’s meeting in November time, and on behalf of the Publications Committee, I invite If you haven’t already done so, please renew your member- proposals from members who would like to write similar es- ship today (a form is enclosed), and if you are able, please be says This publication is paid for by the Daniel Heartz En- generous in contributing to the Heartz Endowment Please dowment, and I want to thank everyone who has contributed consider ordering a copy of Mozart in Prague: Essays on Per- so generously to this fund formance, Patronage, Sources, and Reception (MSA, 2016) for By the time you receive this, MSA will have had its fifth yourself, and please encourage your institutional library to annual panel session at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lin- purchase a copy as well (Members of MSA pay only $25, a coln Center in New York, on July 30 Bruce Brown chaired 50% discount off the list price of $50 ) the session and three of our members gave papers on topics I am still looking for a student representative to the MSA relating to “Mozart the Wunderkind”: Alyson McLamore, Board for a one-year term, and there are several slots on Adeline Mueller, and Edmund Goehring Please note the call standing committees that need to be filled in the coming year for proposals for the MSA session at the American Society Please contact me (pcorneilson61@verizon net) if you are in- for Eighteenth-Century Studies and for the Society for Eigh- terested in serving the Society or if you have any suggestions teenth-Century Music’s conference next year I also want to for the Board to consider SECM invites proposals for papers and presentations on Newsletter of the Mozart Society of America all aspects of eighteenth-century music Presentations may be Volume 21, Number 2 traditional papers of twenty-five minutes (thirty-five-minute Fall 2017 slot), work-in-progress presentations of ten minutes (twen- ISSN: 1527-3733 ty-minute slot), panels (forty-five minutes) or lecture recitals (up to forty-five minutes) Preference will be given to those The Newsletter is published twice yearly (spring and fall) by the Mozart Society of America Guidelines who did not present at the 2016 meeting in Austin All pre- for submission are posted on the website: senters must be current members of SECM www mozartsocietyofamerica org Submit your proposal (250 words) as an email attachment Editor: Christopher Lynch to the chair of the program committee, Drew Edward Davies lynchchristop@gmail com (secm2018@gmail com) by October 30, 2017 Only one sub- mission per author will be considered Please provide a cover Review Editor: Emily Wuchner wuchner2@illinois edu sheet and proposal in separate documents The cover sheet should contain your name, email address, phone number, Designed by Dean Bornstein and proposal title The proposal should contain only the title, Mozart Society of America abstract, and audio-visual requirements The committee’s de- c/o Beverly Wilcox cision will be announced in mid-November 435 G Street, Apt 207 Davis, CA 95616 Call for Papers: MSA at ASECS Announcements MSA is organizing a session at the forty-ninth annual meet- MSA at AMS ing of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, which will be held from March 22 to 25, 2018, in Orlando, On Thursday night, November 9, the Mozart Society of Amer- Florida The session description is below If you are interested ica will host a study session at the American Musicological in participating, please send a proposal to session chair Lau- Society in Rochester, New York Neal Zaslaw has completed rel Zeiss (Laurel_Zeiss@baylor edu) by September 15, 2017 the New Köchel, a new edition of the standard catalogue of Include your telephone number, email address, and a note Mozart’s work list This has been translated into German by about any audio-visual needs and special scheduling requests Ulrich Leisinger, head of the research institute at the Mo- Additional information can be found on MSA’s website zarteum in Salzburg, and the volume will be published by Breitkopf & Härtel Eventually, an English-language version “Mozart the Wunderkind in Context” will be published online, and at the study session Zaslaw and The extraordinary compositional and performing skills Leisinger will be discussing the new catalogue and showing demonstrated by W A Mozart while still a child have loomed samples of the online version On Friday night, November 10, large in his biography and in the reception of his music This there will be a concert featuring Michael Haydn’s Requiem in session will place “Mozart the Wunderkind” into a broader C Minor followed by a reception for MSA members and our context Topics might include concepts of “genius” and “prod- sister societies All members are welcome to both events, and igy” during Mozart’s time (especially in relation to music and please invite friends and colleagues to join us Also during childhood), the early travels and exhibitions of skill by the the AMS meeting, be sure to visit the exhibit hall, where MSA Mozart children, Leopold Mozart’s educational and promo- will be sharing a booth with other eighteenth-century soci- tional strategies with regard to his children, other child prod- eties igies (musical and otherwise) during the eighteenth century, and artistic display by and exploitation of child performers in pre-modern times Musicians and other personalities en- SECM’s Eighth Biennial Conference countered by the Mozart children during their early travels could also be addressed The eighth biennial conference of the Society for Eigh- teenth-Century Music will be held in Tallahassee from Feb- ruary 22 to 25, 2018 2 MSA’s Conference: Mozart and Modernity University of Western Ontario October 20–22, 2017 The Mozart Society of America’s seventh biennial confer- ence, “Mozart and Modernity,” will take place from Friday to Sunday, October 20–22, 2017, at the University of West- ern Ontario The conference aims to address questions about The University of Western Ontario the place of Mozart’s music in the modern world, whether as expressed in performance or in scholarship Above all, it 10:30–12:00 Session 1 considers how an appreciation of Mozart’s music, which re- Laurel Zeiss, Chair lies so heavily on the authority of beauty and the availability of convention, can be sustained in a modern critical climate Kevin Ngo (University of Calgary), “Studying Mozart’s Piano where beauty and convention have lost some of their cultural Music in the Twenty-First Century: Are Urtexts the Wrong command Texts?” In addition to the slate of free papers, the conference will Mary Robbins (Austin, Texas), “Mozart’s Systematic Expres- offer several special events On the eve of the conference sion: A Modern, Sustainable View of His Music” (Thursday, October 19), Robert B Pippin, of the University of Chicago, will speak on Hitchcock and modernism The 12:00–1:30 Lunch conference’s last session will be a roundtable convened on 1:30–4:30 Session 2 Wye Allanbrook’s The Secular Commedia: Comic Mimesis Kathryn Libin, Chair in Late Eighteenth-Century Music Finally, we are fortunate to have two performances One, by UWO’s resident piano João Pedro Cachopo (University of Chicago / Universi- quartet, Ensemble Made in Canada, will offer a program dade Nova de Lisboa), “Opera, Film, and Modernity: Some pairing Mozart’s G-minor Piano Quartet, K 478, with Jean Thoughts on Mark Rappaport’s Mozart in Love (1975)” Lesage’s 2006 piano trio, “Le projet Mozart,” and Arvo Pärt’s James DiNardo (University of Notre Dame), “Grappling “Mozart-Adagio ” The other is an evening on “Macbeth and with Form and Function in Mozart’s ‘Great’ C-Minor Mass, Don Juan on the Eighteenth-Century Stage ” Students from K 427” UWO’s Theatre Studies Program will present scenes not only Marina Gallagher (University of British Columbia), “Forg- from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, but also from Gottlieb Stepha- ing a Modern Female Identity: Despina’s Musical Topoi and nie’s Macbeth (1772), originally written as a substitute Don Mimetic Performances in Così fan tutte” Juan play, and Anton Cremeri’s Der steinerne Gast (1788) Discussion will follow the performances Paul Corneilson (Packard Humanities Institute), “‘Only op- posites belong together’: Mozart contra Modernism” Program 4:30–5:30 Reception 5:30–7:45 Dinner THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 4:30 Robert B.