Las oberturas para tres chalumeaux de Christoph Graupner.Anális textual, organológico y performativo

Abstract

This research work is aimed at Christoph Graupner's Ouvertures GWV 401 and 443written for a consort of three chalumeaux. One of a kind, these dance suites occupy aunique place in Baroque chamber music for wind instruments. In the present study, theseworks are brought into focus and are subjected to a deep analysis from variousperspectives.In the first part of the work there is a study of the biographical, socioeconomic and culturalcontext of the author and his times. This reveals his first years of training, and his decisivestage as a student at the Tomasschule in Leipzig with the Professors Schelle and Kuhnau(a stage in which he became acquainted, and became friends, with a number of musicianswho would later be transcendent in his life and professional career, as in the case ofGrünewald or Telemann). Maybe, as I point out in this thesis by way of a hypothesis, thatit was possibly during these student years in Leipzig that he first became aware of thedelicate wind instrument to which this present writing is largely dedicated: thechalumeau. Graupner's crucially important professional journey, from Hamburg toDarmstadt (where he would spend his last days) is set out in detail. Following this, thecompositional work of Graupner is analyzed; the influences, style, instrumental colour,his relationship with other musicians (in particular with his teachers Schelle and Kuhnau,as well as Telemann), and the presence of the chalumeau in his works...