Inaug.-Diss.--München. / Lebenslauf. "Register der Reichaschen Kompositionen": p. [151]-154.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 1980. / Typescript. "Graduate Program in Music." Vita. Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 407-427).

Missa pro defunctis (1802-1808) by Antonín Reicha (1770-1836) is a unique work. Situated in time and in style between the monumental requiem settings of Mozart and Berlioz, it establishes the concert requiem as a sub-genre of requiem composition. Missa pro defunctis incorporates attributes from both liturgical and concertized genres and co-exists within both church and dramatic composition realms. As seen in his copious theory writings, Reicha’s ideas concerning melody, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and dramatic composition inform his compositional preferences. In this study I demonstrate how a modern performance of Antonín Reicha's Missa pro defunctis can be informed by consideration of his major theoretical writings, by an understanding of the nineteenth-century concert requiem sub-genre, and by other writings on nineteenth-century performance practice. In producing an historically informed performance of Missa pro defunctis, I analyzed the four major theoretical treatises by Reicha for content, and relevancy, to the Requiem. I next analyzed the Missa pro defunctis itself in light of these treatises. I discovered that the work sometimes aligns with Reicha’s theoretical writings and sometimes departs from their principles, in large part, because of the inherent contradiction resulting when a sacred text is set in a dramatic fashion. I further incorporated conclusions about the implications for performance revealed through the study of Reicha’s theoretical writings and my own experience in preparing the work for performance. It is my hope that this recently published nineteenth-century work will receive more frequent performance than has been the case since its composition. This study contains resources to provide conductors a means of producing a performance that is in consonance with Reicha’s philosophies as a theorist and composer.

Diss.--Oldenburg, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 302-313. Index.

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Jacques-Jules Bouffil was a prominent nineteenth-century French clarinetist and composer. Much of the existing biographical information for Bouffil is in French, it is often in obscure locations, and the sources available often contain discrepancies. This document provides the most comprehensive and accurate biography to date of clarinetist and composer Jacques-Jules Bouffil through examination of his studies at the Paris Conservatoire, as well as his performance career with the Paris Opéra-Comique orchestra, the Reicha Wind Quintet, and other organizations. The compositional contributions of Bouffil include a number of chamber music pieces, most notably, six trios for three B-flat clarinets, op. 7 nos. 1-3 and op. 8 nos. 1-3. These six trios comprise some of the most substantial works composed for the medium. They deserve to be better known because of their unusual concertant style writing and compositional rigor. This study offers a new performance edition with rehearsal score of Bouffil’s Trio no. 2, op. 7, a work that is not readily available to modern performers.

Antoine Reicha stands as an important figure in the growing systematization of musical form. While Traite de melodie (1814) captures the essence of eighteenth-century concern with tonal movement and periodicity, Reicha's later ideas as represented in Traite de haute composition musicale (1824-26) anticipate descriptions of thematic organization characteristic of his nineteenth-century successors. Three important topics emerge as crucial elements: melody, thematic development, and schematic categorization of complete pieces.

Les nombreux écrits théoriques d’Antoine Reicha sont bien connus de la musicologie, qui voit dans le théoricien un personnage central du XIXe siècle. Sa production musicale reste cependant encore largement ignorée. Ainsi, les 20 quatuors à cordes de Reicha édités de son vivant n’ont encore fait l’objet d’aucune étude approfondie : les 8 premiers sont publiés en 1804-1805 lors du séjour viennois de Reicha, les 12 suivants paraissent dans les années 1820, après son installation définitive à Paris. Leur publication entre deux grandes capitales de la musique s’étend des derniers quatuors de Haydn aux derniers quatuors de Beethoven : ces quatuors constituent donc un corpus d’étude privilégié pour la connaissance de l’œuvre musicale de Reicha, mais aussi pour celle du genre du quatuor à l’époque. Cette thèse s’appuie sur l’établissement d’une édition critique des quatuors de Reicha ; leur étude se poursuit par la mise au jour des présupposés esthétiques qui sous-tendent les écrits théoriques de Reicha et se clôt par l’analyse des phénomènes d’intertextualité entre ses quatuors et des œuvres de Haydn et Mozart ainsi que par l’observation de leur écriture à travers le prisme des écrits théoriques de la fin du XVIIIe siècle. L’étude proprement analytique révèle les constantes et les variantes stylistiques entre les « Quatuors viennois » du début du siècle et les « Quatuors parisiens » des années 1820. La comparaison systématique avec un large contre-corpus formé de quatuors contemporains permet de situer les quatuors de Reicha par rapport à l’héritage viennois revendiqué, mais aussi par rapport aux musiciens français actifs sous la Restauration. / Anton Reicha’s numerous theoretical writings are well-known in musicology today. Though Reicha is seen as a central theorist of the 19th century, his proper music nevertheless remains largely unknown. This PhD dissertation studies Reicha’s twenty string quartets published during his lifetime – which up to now have not been investigated in depth. The first eight quartets were published in 1804-1805 during Reicha’s stay in Vienna, whereas the last twelve were published in the 1820’s, after the composer settled in Paris: that is, they were published during a period lasting from Haydn’s last quartets to Beethoven’s last quartets. As a consequence, these quartets represent a corpus of particular relevance of knowledge of Reicha’s musical work, as well as for the history of this genre in the 19th century. This PhD dissertation, based on both an aesthetic and an analytical approach, creates a critical edition of Reicha’s quartets. This study starts by shedding light on the aesthetic premises of Reicha’s theoretical work and then analyses intertextual phenomena between his quartets and some of Haydn’s and Mozart’s works. Eventually it examines the composition process of Reicha’s quartets in the light of late 18th-century theoretical writings. The study of the constants and the variations of style between the early 19th-century “Vienna quartets” and the 1820’s “Paris quartets” is at the core of this study. The systematic comparison between the Reicha’s corpus and a counter-corpus made of quartets by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Onslow and Cherubini helps situating Reicha as regarding his claimed Vienna legacy, but also as regarding French musician from the “Restauration” era.

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