一位英国作曲家和她的歌剧:哈丽特·温赖特的Comàla (1792)

IF 0.4 2区 艺术学 0 MUSIC JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH Pub Date : 2021-02-16 DOI:10.1080/01411896.2021.1872378
James Porter
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本文讨论了英国作曲家哈里特·温赖特(约1766-1843)于1792年1月26日在伦敦汉诺威广场厅首演的歌剧《Comàla》。这位作曲家来自利物浦的温赖特家族。在她的《歌唱艺术评论》(1836)中,她描述了自己年轻时的音乐才能。搬到伦敦后,她结识了社会上有影响力的人物,并参加了歌剧演出,在那里,帕奇罗蒂(Pachierotti)或马尔切西(Marchesi)等明星阉人的演唱令她着迷。她拥有一副优美的女高音嗓音,跟着沃克斯豪尔花园的管风琴师约翰·沃根学习和声和对位法。她决定自己创作一部歌剧,并花了大约一年的时间创作Comàla,这是一个根据奥西安诗歌改编的戏剧性故事。但她在伦敦找不到能上演这出歌剧的剧院;这首歌必须以音乐会的形式演出,由索菲亚·科里和詹姆斯·巴特曼演唱主角。包括伯尼在内的评论家对这部作品赞不绝口,海顿的出版商威廉·纳皮尔(William Napier)最终在1803年出版了一部完整的评分。哈丽特对未能获得Comàla或她早期的歌剧《堂吉诃德》的演出感到失望,于1796年前往印度,并于1801年嫁给了英国陆军(东印度公司)的军官约翰·斯图尔特上校。她曾在加尔各答由业余爱好者Comàla演唱,并亲自担任主要角色。1820年丈夫去世后,她以“斯图尔特上校夫人”的身份回到英国,继续创作歌曲和合唱。她于1843年底在伦敦去世。
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An English Composer and Her Opera: Harriet Wainewright’s Comàla (1792)
ABSTRACT This paper discusses an opera by the English composer Harriet Wainewright (ca.1766-1843), namely Comàla, which received its premiere at the Hanover Square Rooms, London on January 26, 1792. The composer was from a Liverpool family of Wainwright (variable spelling). In her Critical Remarks on the Art of Singing (1836) she describes her musical ability as a young woman. Moving to London she cultivated an introduction to influential figures in society and attended opera performances, where the singing of stellar castrati such as Pachierotti or Marchesi fascinated her. Possessed of a fine soprano voice she studied harmony and counterpoint with John Worgan, an organist at Vauxhall Gardens. She decided to compose an opera herself and spent about a year writing Comàla, a dramatic tale from the poems of Ossian. But she was unable to find a theater in London that would stage the opera; it had to be performed as a concert piece, the lead roles being sung by Sophia Corri and James Bartleman. Critics, including Burney, were fulsome in their praise of the work, and Haydn’s publisher William Napier eventually brought out a full score in 1803. Disappointed at not securing staged performances of Comàla or her earlier opera (Don Quixote) Harriet left for India in 1796 where she married Col. John Stewart, an officer in the British Army (East India Company) in 1801. She had Comàla performed in Calcutta by amateurs, singing the main role herself. Returning to England as “Mrs. Col. Stewart” she continued to compose songs and choruses after her husband’s death in 1820. She died in London at the end of 1843.
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Musicological Research publishes original articles on all aspects of the discipline of music: historical musicology, style and repertory studies, music theory, ethnomusicology, music education, organology, and interdisciplinary studies. Because contemporary music scholarship addresses critical and analytical issues from a multiplicity of viewpoints, the Journal of Musicological Research seeks to present studies from all perspectives, using the full spectrum of methodologies. This variety makes the Journal a place where scholarly approaches can coexist, in all their harmony and occasional discord, and one that is not allied with any particular school or viewpoint.
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