Over the summer, professor Markus Rathey, the Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Musicology and Theory at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School, gave several presentations at conferences in Italy and England.
At “Musical Competitions in Europe (1700-1920)”, a symposium in Lovere, Italy, he presented his work on Johann Sebastian Bach and the sociological ramifications of musical competitions in the early eighteenth century in a paper entitled: “Bach’s Competitions against Marchand and Pan: Facts and Fiction in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Musical Contests.”
In Oxford, England, he shared his work on the reception of African-American Spirituals in Germany in the decades around 1900 at the “Christian Congregational Music: Local & Global Perspectives” conference. His paper “Beyond the Sonic Color Line: The Europe Tour of the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1877/78 and the Congregational Reception of Spirituals in 19th Century Germany,” explored how the reception of spirituals coincided with a reception of the Holiness-Movement in Germany.
Read more about Professor Rathey here.