{"id":2844,"date":"2016-09-05T18:49:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T22:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2016-12-31T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T19:52:09","slug":"erste-improvisation-von-langenschwarz-in-munchen-19-july-1830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=2844","title":{"rendered":"“Erste Improvisation von Langenschwarz in M\u00fcnchen (19 July 1830)”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Langenschwarz<\/dd>\n
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Munich<\/dd>\n
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1830<\/dd>\n
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1830<\/dd>\n
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Erste Improvisation von Langenschwarz in M\u00fcnchen (19 July 1830) Stenographisch aufgenommen und herausgegeben von F.X. Gabelsberger (k.q. Sekret\u00e4r und geheimer Canzelist)<\/dd>\n
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[From the Preface:] Die seltene Produktion einer “deutschen Improvisation<\/i>” welche — meines Wissens die erste<\/i> in Bayern und namentlich in M\u00fcnchen — am 19. Juli durch Herrn Langenschwarz<\/i> im k\u00f6niglichen Hoftheater an der Residenz mit r\u00fchmlichster Kunst-Gewandtheit ausgef\u00fchrt wurde, war mir eine zu sch\u00f6ne und reizende Gelegenheit, einen Beweis der N\u00fctzlichkeit und Annehmlichkeit der Stenographie<\/i> zu liefern, als dass ich es h\u00e4tte vers\u00e4umen k\u00f6nnen, die Leistung der Schnellschreibkunst nach der von mir erfundenen Zeichenschrift mit jener bewunderungsw\u00fcrdigen Produktion in Verbindung zu setzen.
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\nAm Schlusse seiner poetischen Rede war er \u00fcbrigens sichtbar sehr ersch\u00f6pft, so dass er sich mehreremale an einem der Fortepiano’s festzuhalten suchte.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe pamphlet consists of 13 pages. Gabelsberger’s Preface, dated 21 July 1830, gives details of the performance. Fifty topics were written down by the audience and ten of these were chosen at random by an 8- or 10-year-old girl. Langenschwarz selected five of the ten topics for the evening’s performance. Only the first improvisation, a 45-minute epic poem, was oral. Five further improvisations – Langenschwarz added one to the remaining four prescribed topics – were (speed-)written in about 25 minutes. For some reason the orchestra, and thus the overture, failed to show up, which made Langenschwarz’s task harder at the beginning, but he turned it into a splendid performance. He was accompanied in his improvisation by a lady on a guitar. Other performers included a female singer, a piano duet, a court actor who recited one of the improviser’s pieces, and a violinist. The oral epic poem was in pentameter, alternating feminine and masculine endings, each two of the masculine ones rhyming; it was announced by Langenschwarz as being on Napoleon, Hannibal, Alexander, and Ludwig von Bayern, although in performance Langenschwarz forgot to include Alexander. The written poems were in different stanza forms. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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A pamphlet containing a direct stenographic recording of a performance by the German improvisatore Maximilian Langenschwarz, published and with a preface by F. X. Gabelsberger. This is the first German improvisation in Bavaria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[125,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}