An edition of Crossing confessional boundaries (2006)
Crossing confessional boundaries
the patronage of Italian sacred music in seventeenth-century Dresden
By Mary E. Frandsen
Publish Date
2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
eng
Pages
514
Description:
This volume examines the uneasy alliance of two confessions Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent 17th century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars.
subjects: Chapels royal, Church music, Court and courtiers, Courts and courtiers, Dresden (germany), history
People: Johann Georg II Elector of Saxony (1613-1680)
Places: Dresden, Dresden (Germany), Germany
Times: 17th century