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Fees are subject to change. <UN> This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. 0004752108.INDD 4 300845 07-02-2020 18:34:14 Contents Acknowledgements vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Krisztina Lajosi and Andreas Stynen 1 German Influences Choirs, Repertoires, Nationalities 14 Joep Leerssen 2 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in Nineteenth-Century France 33 Sophie-Anne Leterrier 3 Song in the Service of Politics and the Building of Norway 53 Anne Jorunn Kydland 4 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in the Nineteenth Century A Scottish Perspective 70 Jane Mallinson 5 Fighting Choirs Choral Singing and the Emergence of a Welsh National Tradition, 1860–1914 83 Gareth Williams 6 The Large-Scale Oratorio Chorus in Nineteenth-Century England Choral Power and the Role of Handel’s Messiah 99 Fiona M. Palmer 7 National Art and Local Sociability Dutch Male Choral Societies in the Nineteenth Century 111 Jozef Vos 8 The Choir Scene in Flemish Belgium in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century The Vlaemsch-Duitsch Zangverbond 130 Jan Dewilde Krisztina Lajosi and Andreas Stynen - 9789004300859 Downloaded from Brill.com09/29/2021 07:51:02PM via free access vi contents 9 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in the Basque Country The Orfeon Donostiarra 152 Carmen de las Cuevas Hevia 10 Choral Societies and Nationalist Mobilization in Catalonia, 1850–1930 157 Dominique Vidaud 11 “By Means of Singing to the Heart, by Means of Heart to the Homeland” Choral Societies and the Nationalist Mobilization of Czechs in the Nineteenth Century 187 Karel Šima, Tomáš Kavka, and Hana Zimmerhaklová 12 Collapsing Stages and Standing Ovations Hungarian Choral Societies and Sociability in the Nineteenth Century 206 Krisztina Lajosi 13 Choral Societies and National Mobilization in the Serbian (Inter)national Network 225 Tatjana Marković 14 Choral Societies and National Mobilization in Nineteenth-Century Bulgaria 241 Ivanka Vlaeva Bibliography 261 Index 280 Krisztina Lajosi and Andreas Stynen - 9789004300859 Downloaded from Brill.com09/29/2021 07:51:02PM via free access Acknowledgements This book is the result of a workshop on Choral Movements and Nationalist Mobilization (Antwerp, February 2011), jointly organised by NISE (National movements & Intermediary Structures in Europe) and SPIN (Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms). The editors wish to express their gratitude to everyone involved in both the workshop and this resulting publication. Special thanks to the members of the 2010–2011 advisory board: Koenraad De Meulder, Koen De Scheemaeker, Jan Dewilde, Vic Nees (†), Michaël Scheck, Hugo Sledsens, Maarten Van Ginderachter, Frans-Jos Verdoodt and Staf Vos. We are also grateful to John Neubauer and Philipp Ther for their helpful advice. Special thanks also to Gene Moore for his help with copy-editing. Krisztina Lajosi and Andreas Stynen - 9789004300859 Downloaded from Brill.com09/29/2021 07:51:02PM via free access Notes on Contributors Carmen de las Cuevas Hevia is Senior Lecturer in Music Teaching at the Department of Music, Arts and Physical Education, School of Education, University of the Basque Country (Spain). An expert in both voice training and music education, she has worked since 1984 in the graduate and postgraduate programs in Teacher Training at the University of the Basque Country, where in 1998 she received her Ph.D. in Education with a dissertation entitled “Orfeón Donostiarra 1897–1997: proyec- ción social, cultural y educativa,” a case study involving the choral societies movement in the Basque Country. Her fields of interest are choral music teach- ing, primary education teacher training, and formal and informal aspects of music teaching. Jan Dewilde studied musicology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and wrote his the- sis on the Flemish composer Jules Falck (1881–1959). He publishes on Flemish music, and musical heritage and libraries. Currently, he is working on a biog- raphy of the composer Peter Benoit (1834–1901). He is also an editor for a sheet music series, The Flemish Music Collection (Repertoire Explorer), at Musikproduktion Höflich in Munich. Since 1998 he has been the scientific co- ordinator for the Study Centre for Flemish Music, a post he combines since 2006 with his work as a head librarian at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (Artesis Plantijn University College). Tomáš Kavka earned his Ph.D. in 2013 at the Institute of Social and Economic History, Charles University, Prague, where he specialized in art societies of the belle époque, Czech and German national movements and popular culture. He co-authored (together with Ondřej Daniel and Jakub Machek) a collective monograph entitled Popular Culture in Czech Space (in Czech, 2013). His areas of interest include everyday life and youth aspects of post-socialist popular culture. He is a chairman of Prague’s NGO Centre for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPK). Anne Jorunn Kydland holds a doctoral degree from the University of Oslo (1996), and a position as research librarian at the National Library of Norway. Her various books and articles are focused on cultural history, in particular