Alison Dunlop (b. 1985) is a freelance musicologist based in Vienna, Austria. She completed a doctoral dissertation on the composer Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770) at Queen's University Belfast under the supervision of Professors Yo Tomita and Ian Woodfield having earlier graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Greek and Music (first class honours), and a Master's in Music (distinction). She studied piano with Roy Holmes at the Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama. Alison has participated in masterclasses with eminent musicians such as John Lill, Rita Medjimorec, Colm Carey, William Howard and Jonathan Plowright, and whilst living in Northern Ireland was active as music teacher and pianist (soloist and chamber musician).
| 2000-2010 | Teacher of Piano and Music Theory (ABRSM), Freelance Accompanist |
| 2008-2010 | Teaching Assistant, Queen's University Belfast |
| 2010-Present | Freelance Musicologist, Proofreader, Translator (German-English), English Teacher |
| September 2011-Present | Projektmitarbeiterin, Don Juan Archiv Wien (Komplex Mauerbach) |
| 2010 | PhD Music, Queen's University Belfast Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770): A Companion to the Sources | 2007 | MA Music (distinction), Queen's University Belfast MA thesis on Gottlieb Muffat's transcriptions of G. F. Handel. |
| 2006 | BA Modern Greek and Music (first class), Queen's University Belfast Including a translation and revision of the book Greek Women in Nazi Camps, memoirs of Maria Tsiskaki-Galiatsatou. |
| 2005 | Certificate in French for Business, Queen's University Belfast |
Working title: Wiener Hofmusiker im 18. Jahrhundert/Viennese Court Musicians in the 18th Century (Database)
(More detailed information to follow)
The primary sources which will be employed for this project are:
Obersthofmeisteramt records (A-Whh)
Hofzeremonielldepartement records (A-Whh)
Hofkalender (original imperial court copies in A-Whh)
Hof- and Cameralzahlamt records (AT-OeStA FHK)
Death inspection registers (Totenbeschauprotokolle) (A-Wsa)
Church records (various)
Wills and estate documents (A-Whh and A-Wsa)
Hofquartiersbücher (AT-OeStA FHK)
Tax registers (Steuerfassionen) (A-Wsa)
Land registers (Grundbücher) and building plans (A-Wsa)
Wienerisches Diarium/Wiener Zeitung (various)
Correspondence (various)
[A-Whh: Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv; A-Wsa: Stadt- und Landesarchiv; AT-OeStA FHK: Allgemeines Verwaltungsarchiv, Finanz- und Hofkammerarchiv]
A systematic evaluation of these sources will allow two primary aims to be realised: firstly, to provide a revised and detailed documentary history of the Viennese Hofkapelle, and secondly, to reveal hitherto unknown biographical information about musicians working there. It is hoped that such a lexiographic resource may serve as the foundation for further studies, for example, interaction between musicians employed at court and those active outside the institution (both within and beyond the confines of the city and empire); in turn this should allow us to reconstruct social and musical networks which reveal influences on and from music being created and performed there. It should also illuminate the organisation of court music, its policies and demographic composition and permit us to more accurately compare Vienna to other European courts.
Gottlieb and Georg Muffat
Copyists of keyboard music in Vienna in the first half of the 18th century
Title: Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770): A Companion to the Sources
Synopsis:The aim of this thesis is to illuminate the life and works of the composer and organist Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770) through a critical evaluation of all known sources of his music and selected biographical documents. It is intended primarily to provide the groundwork for future research on Muffat’s music and comprises five distinct sections. The first section contains a detailed biography set within a social, cultural and historic framework. The second section comprises a detailed discussion of Muffat’s works within the context of the cultivation of keyboard music in Vienna. The provenance and transmission of individual music manuscripts is then discussed in order to refine our perception of how Muffat’s music has been received over the past 300 years. A thematic catalogue constitutes the third section of this thesis. Although it is not the first catalogue of Muffat’s work, it is the only one to incorporate the large corpus of recently discovered works in the archive of the Berlin Sing-Akademie. The fourth section provides a succinct description of each source and is intended to complement the thematic catalogue. The final section of this thesis includes transcriptions of a diverse range of documents related to aspects of Gottlieb Muffat’s family life and his duties at the imperial court.
Muffat Compendium, 14 vols. including a complete edition of the works of Gottlieb Muffat. (in preparation for Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag)
Vol. 1 The Life and Works of Gottlieb Muffat (1690–1770) (Vol. 1: A Documentary Biography)
Vol. 2 The Life and Works of Gottlieb Muffat (1690–1770) (Vol. 2: Catalogue of Works and Sources)
Vols. 3-8 Partitas
Vol. 9 Works for Organ
Vol. 10 Ricercars and Canzonas
Vol. 11 Toccatas and Capriccios
Vol. 12 Chamber Works
Vol. 13 Componimenti Musicali
Vol. 14 72 Verstel
Bach's B-minor Mass Performed in Foreign Lands (catalogue of exhibition) (Belfast: Queen's University, 2007).
'Music and Musicians at the Pressburg Coronation of Maria Theresia (1741)' (forthcoming, in Musicologica slovaca, 2012)
'Forgotten Musicians. Documenting Musical Life at the Viennese Imperial Court in the Eighteenth Century' (forthcoming, in Musicologica Brunensia, 2012)
'Maria Tsiskaki-Galiatsatou. Greek Women in Nazi Camps: An Unknown Page in the History of Woman in the Antifascist Struggle' (forthcoming, 2012)
'New Contributions to the Biography of Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770)' (forthcoming, in Bach Perspectives, 9).
'Neue Erkenntnisse zur Richter-Überlieferung in Berlin: Die Franz-Xaver-Richter-Quellen im Archiv der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin' (forthcoming).
'Sacred Music Ascribed to Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770)' (in print).
'David Schulenberg, The Keyboard Music of J. S. Bach' (review article), Bach Bibliography (2009).
'The Keyboard Copyists of Fux's circle with Particular Emphasis on Gottlieb Muffat', Understanding Bach 3 (2008), (paper given at the Third Johann Sebastian Bach Dialogue Meeting (Oxford, 5-6 January, 2008).
'The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture. Instruments, Performers and Repertoire' (review article), Bach Bibliography (2008).
Contributions to the Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland.
Seminars
'The Lost Amadeus' (Public Research Seminar, Queen's University Belfast, 5 May 2010).
Conference Papers
''Wie es der Decor des Hofs erheischet': The Changing Shape of the Viennese Imperial Hofkapelle in the Eighteenth Century' (46th International Musicological Colloquium, Brno, 9-12 October 2011).
'Forgotten Musicians. Documenting Musical Life at the Viennese Imperial Court in the Eighteenth Century' (13th International Congress for Eighteenth Century Studies, Graz, 25-29 July 2011).
'Gottlieb Muffat und die Überlieferung Bach'scher Musik für Tasteninstrumente in Wien' (invited paper) (Bach und Wien. Die Wiener Bach-Tradition, ihre Träger, Überlieferungswege und Auswirkungen im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert, Universität Wien, 27-28 May 2011).
'The Lost Amadeus: Gottlieb Muffat and Posterity' (14th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Queen's University Belfast, 30 June-4 July 2010).
'A Hitherto Unknown Manuscript Source of Georg Muffat's Keyboard Works' (Society for Musicology in Ireland Annual Conference, University of Ulster (Londonderry), 7-9 May 2010).
'Reconstructing Muffat: The Role of Catalogues' (Interdisciplinary Symposium: Music without Walls?, Queen's University Belfast, 16-17 December 2009).
'Caveat Lector! Sacred Music Ascribed to Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770)' (Symposium Sacred Music in the Habsburg Empire 1619-1740 and Its Contexts, Middelburg, 5-8 November 2009).
''Little-Missed Muffat': The Georg and Gottlieb Muffat Sources in the Berlin Sing-Akademie Archive' (SMI/RMA Joint Annual Conference, RIAM Dublin, 9-12 July 2009).
'Neue Erkenntnisse zur Richter-Überlieferung in Berlin: Die Franz-Xaver-Richter-Quellen im Archiv der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin' (invited paper) (Franz Xaver Richter: Kompositorisches Schaffen zwischen Wien und Straßburg am Ende des Heiligen Römischen Reiches, Interdisziplinäres Symposium in Kempten, 30 April - 3 May 2009).
'Gottlieb Muffat in Berlin: New Sources and Perspectives: The Keyboard Suites' (13th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Leeds, 2-6 July 2008).
'Gottlieb Muffat in Berlin: New Sources and Perspectives' (AHSS Conference, Queen's University Belfast, 26-27 June 2008).
'The Keyboard Copyists of Fux's Circle with Particular Emphasis on Gottlieb Muffat', (Third Johann Sebastian Bach Dialogue Meeting, Oxford, 5-6 January, 2008).
PhD representative for the Society for Musicology in Ireland 2009-2010
Member of conference committee of the 4th annual Society for Musicology in Ireland postgraduate students' conference (Belfast, 27-28 January 2011)
Joint coordinator of the 14th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music (Belfast, 30 June-4 July 2010)
Organiser of the Interdisciplinary Symposium Music without Walls? Source Studies in the 21st Century (Belfast, 17 December 2009)
Organiser of the German Palaeography Study Day (Belfast, 17 January 2009)
Member of local management team, producer of exhibition and accompanying booklet for the International Symposium: Understanding Bach's B-minor Mass (Belfast, 2-4 November 2007)
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS): bursary awarded to present at the 13th International Congress for Eighteenth Century Studies, Graz, Austria (2011)
Department of Education (DEL), Northern Ireland: PhD studentship (2007-2010)
Queen's University Belfast Student-Led Initiative Funding: organisation of academic events (2008, 2009, 2010)
Middelburg Academy, the Netherlands: bursary to attend the conference Sacred Music in the Habsburg Empire 1619–1740, Middelburg, the Netherlands (2009)
Royal Musical Association: conference grant for the organisation of the Interdisciplinary Symposium Music without Walls? Source Studies in the 21st Century (2009)
Society for Musicology in Ireland (SMI): grant awarded to carry out research in Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary (2009)
Sir Thomas Dixon Scholarship: awarded to carry out research at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (2008), awarded to carry out undergraduate research in Greece (2005)
Department of Education (DEL), Northern Ireland: MA studentship (2006-2007)