Caroline Pichler, Women’s Agency, and Intellectual Inspiration between Viennese and Bohemian Cultural Circles

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Caroline Pichler, Women’s Agency, and Intellectual Inspiration between Viennese and Bohemian Cultural Circles

Original language description

This chapter explores three layers of intellectual inspiration through the lens of private and semi-private cultural practices in Vienna and Bohemia. Using as an example the circles of writer and salonnière Caroline Pichler, I demonstrate that intellectual inspiration is based on a highly complex web of impulses heavily impacted by aspects of women’s agency both on personal, communicative-mediating and cross-medial, creative levels, as well as by a number of ‘beyond-personal’ factors. This web enabling subtle interaction was nurtured and utilized by and through Pichler, both in Schubert’s Vienna and beyond. I first trace Pichler’s personal contacts in Prague, among whom are the writers Wolfgang Adolf Gerle and Josef Dobrovský, the historian František Palacký, and such cultural protagonists as Marie Charlotte von Kinsky and Maria Rosa von Kolowrat (both of whom eventually relocated from Prague to Vienna). Opening up a second perspective and focusing on intersections between the fine arts, literature, and music, always with an eye to matters of autobiography, I offer close readings of two settings of Pichler’s poetry: the Bohemian composer Václav Jan Tomášek’s ballad Die Entstehung der Zinstercienser-Abtei Hohenfurth in Böhmen (The Formation of the Cistercian Abbey of Hohenfurth in Bohemia, begun in 1817, published in 1832), and the Hungarian com-poser János Fusz’s dramatic song Die Beruhigung (The Reassurance, published in 1817), which is a setting of the same words as Franz Schubert’s Der Unglückliche (The Unhappy One, published in 1827, and begun in 1821). On a third, ‘beyond-personal’ level, I suggest that the kinds of intellectual inspiration transpiring in these musical and literary works transcend the mere personal relationships between Pichler and the aforementioned writers, composers, and music supporters. For instance, it draws on creativity nourished between different societal strata, between urban and provincial spaces, between sacred and secular contexts, between the human past and present, and between nature and civilization.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Women’s Agency in Schubert’s Vienna

ISBN

978-3-7001-9656-3

Number of pages of the result

33

Pages from-to

179-211

Number of pages of the book

432

Publisher name

Austrian Academy of Sciences

Place of publication

Vienna

UT code for WoS chapter

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