Mobile musicians: paths of migration in early modern Europe
- In recent years, the cultural history of music has been challenging culturalnotions of style and political representation by studying migrating musicians as ac-tors in early modern court, urban and musical life. Following the aesthetic conceptof authenticity, this article examines the construction and use of cultural charac-terisations of mobility and migration in Glückstadt, a “city of exiles” founded byChristian IV in 1616, and in the biography of Johann Jakob Froberger, who through-out his life travelled in the service of the Viennese court. While first manifestationsof a concept of authenticity can be studied very effectively by looking at the exampleof mobile musicians and their music, their cases also reveal immobilities, the aspir-ation to rise in social status and the desire to settle securely. Since these elementsaffected the concept of musical works at the time, they may be fruitfully connectedto hybrid music editions.
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