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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. University of California Pressis collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Musicology. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 128.235.251.160 on Sat, 7 Feb 2015 22:30:01 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsToward a Stylistic Chronology of Johan Helmich Roman's Symphonies BERTIL VAN BOER T he determination of a chronological order in the works of a composer is a central issue in any understanding of the music since stylistic development over time can show how one's musical language is formed and progresses. Moreover, it can demonstrate how the influences of the various styles with which a composer comes into contact shape the music. In the case of Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758), the creation of an individual style over time is particularly important, for the span of his creative life was spread over the transition from the High Baroque style of well-known composers, such as George Frederick Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann, to the more forward-looking triadic music of the galant or early Empfindsamkeit composers of the middle of the century. The latter include flautist Johann Joachim Quantz, Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich Graun, all of whom were resident in Berlin, the home of Sweden's new crown princess, Lovisa Ulrika. Indeed, the variety of musical development during his lifetime can be summarized in a chronological comparison: Roman, who predeceased his spiritual mentor Handel by one year, outlived that harbinger of the so-called Classical style, Johann Stamitz of Mannheim, likewise by a single year. Thus it was theoretically possible for him to have been cognizant of a wide range of musical styles, from the contrapuntal Fortspinnung of the early Baroque that he learned as a youth in Britain to the short, emotional, Italianate music of the Empfindsamkeit to the lyrical, instrumentally-powerful, yet often cliche-ridden central European style of the Mannheim composers. In short, by the time of his death,Roman could have known, or at least have been aware, of a plethora of musical styles ranging from the anachronistic to the modern. It would therefore be logical to suggest that Roman's music might well be a mirror of the development of those styles, which would be manifested in a genre, such as the symphony, allowing for a tentative chronology of these works to be established on stylistic grounds. The chronology of Roman's symphonies is problematic at present: apart from one work, none of the rest of the twenty authentic works has been dated any more specifically than a timespan ranging from 1737-1752. ' Only the Symphony in G major (BeRI 15) contains a note--"Fogelvik, Aug. 2, 1746"-showing when it was written...
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. University of California Pressis collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Musicology. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 128.235.251.160 on Sat, 7 Feb 2015 22:30:01 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsToward a Stylistic Chronology of Johan Helmich Roman's Symphonies BERTIL VAN BOER T he determination of a chronological order in the works of a composer is a central issue in any understanding of the music since stylistic development over time can show how one's musical language is formed and progresses. Moreover, it can demonstrate how the influences of the various styles with which a composer comes into contact shape the music. In the case of Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758), the creation of an individual style over time is particularly important, for the span of his creative life was spread over the transition from the High Baroque style of well-known composers, such as George Frederick Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann, to the more forward-looking triadic music of the galant or early Empfindsamkeit composers of the middle of the century. The latter include flautist Johann Joachim Quantz, Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich Graun, all of whom were resident in Berlin, the home of Sweden's new crown princess, Lovisa Ulrika. Indeed, the variety of musical development during his lifetime can be summarized in a chronological comparison: Roman, who predeceased his spiritual mentor Handel by one year, outlived that harbinger of the so-called Classical style, Johann Stamitz of Mannheim, likewise by a single year. Thus it was theoretically possible for him to have been cognizant of a wide range of musical styles, from the contrapuntal Fortspinnung of the early Baroque that he learned as a youth in Britain to the short, emotional, Italianate music of the Empfindsamkeit to the lyrical, instrumentally-powerful, yet often cliche-ridden central European style of the Mannheim composers. In short, by the time of his death,Roman could have known, or at least have been aware, of a plethora of musical styles ranging from the anachronistic to the modern. It would therefore be logical to suggest that Roman's music might well be a mirror of the development of those styles, which would be manifested in a genre, such as the symphony, allowing for a tentative chronology of these works to be established on stylistic grounds. The chronology of Roman's symphonies is problematic at present: apart from one work, none of the rest of the twenty authentic works has been dated any more specifically than a timespan ranging from 1737-1752. ' Only the Symphony in G major (BeRI 15) contains a note--"Fogelvik, Aug. 2, 1746"-showing when it was written...
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