Pasticcio. Ways of arranging attractive operas

The project analyses the material basis, the compositional and performative creation, as well as the musical reception of pasticcios within a European-wide network of metropolises and courts like Venice, London, Hamburg, Munich, Dresden, Wrocław (Breslau) and Warsaw. On the one hand, tracing such modes of musical transfer and distribution elucidates the circumstances for the creation and production of pasticcios. On the other hand, an analysis of the musical and literary authorship and its political, social and cultural functions encompassed by the models of pasticcio fragments and by the pasticcios themselves gives insight into both the central aesthetic and cultural developments of the 18th century and the mobilities of its musicians.