Santiago Kastner and the Programming of Early Iberian Keyboard Music

This book examines Santiago Kastner?s paramount role in applying musicology to performance from the 1930s to the 1980s. A British-born cosmopolitan man coming from a remarkable musical background ?his family owned a pianola business?, his European tours as keyboard player during the 1930s and his activity as music critic in Lisbon during the early 1940s enabled Kastner to build an exceptional network that granted him appointments in Portuguese and Spanish institutions. From this position, Kastner was a scholar performer who painstakingly uncovered sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Iberian repertoire by means of its study, edition and interpretation. His impressive output, including music editions, academic literature, concert programmes and recordings, and his extensive collection of marked scores engages this research with the methodological framework of performance studies. Considering historical performance as an invention triggered by musicology and thus a product of contemporary musical performance, three case studies, focused on Seixas, Soler and Cabezón, delve into Santiago Kastner?s approach to the repertoire, into his pioneering attitude in the way that he applied musicological research to concert practice and into his impact in creating a performing tradition.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction

- Part 1. Santiago Kastner and Iberian music

1. Karl Macarius Santiago Kastner (1908-1992)
A musical background
Arrival at the Iberian Peninsula
Converting to Catholicism
Assuming Wanda Landowska?s and Joaquín Nin?s legacies
From Barcelona to Lisbon
A place to settle
Touring Europe in the 1930s

2. Establishing Iberian musicology
Contribution to Spanish and Portuguese music
Advocating contemporary music in the early 1940s
Federico Mompou
Sonata
Music critic in Lisbon
Commitments to Iberian musicology
The Instituto Español de Musicología
The Conservatório Nacional
The Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

3. Achievements of a lifetime of research
Os Menestréis de Lisboa and historical performance
Late publications and appointments: the reception of Santiago Kastner?s legacy

- Part 2. Applied musicology on the spotlight: three case studies

4. Felicja Blumental and Spanish and Portuguese Keyboard Music: Nin, Kastner and performing editions of Iberian repertoire
Pioneering records of early Iberian keyboard music
Joaquín Nin and Classiques Espagnols du Piano
Santiago Kastner and Cravistas Portuguezes
The Iberian tradition in Spanish and Portuguese keyboard music
Felicja Blumental: Spanish and Portuguese Keyboard Music
Antonio Soler: Sonata in D major
Carlos Seixas: Toccata in E minor

5. Antonio Soler?s Seis conciertos de dos órganos obligados: Santiago Kastner and the critical edition in Spain
Seis conciertos de dos órganos obligados
Joaquín Nin, Ruggero Gerlin and Antonio Soler?s Troisième Concerto
Santiago Kastner and Concierto III para dos instrumentos de tecla
Implementing critical editions at the Instituto Español de Musicología
The Concierto III para dos instrumentos de tecla
E. Power Biggs and the first complete recording of Six concerti for two organs
The re-edition of Antonio Soler?s Seis conciertos de dos órganos obligados

6. From the archive to the concert hall: Santiago Kastner?s life-long Antonio de Cabezón project
Pedrell, Anglès and playing Antonio de Cabezón in the 1930s
Applying research to performance practice: programming, editing and recording
Pavana Italiana
Second Tiento del primer tono

Conclusion: the internationalization of Iberian repertoires

Chronology
List of Works by Macario Santiago Kastner
Appendixes
Sources and Bibliography
Index