Kristin Franseen
@kmfranseen.bsky.social
Musicologist. Postdoc at Western University, prev. at Concordia. Current project: Antonio Salieri’s Intriguing Afterlives: Gossip, Fiction, and the Post-Truth in Musical Biography. I also wrote a book on the history of queer musicology! Holmesian. she/her
Rossini (allegedly) asking the difficult questions, possibly because his wife and friends had other things to do after dessert besides sing canons. As translated in The Musical World (December 22, 1855).
![Conversation between Hiller and Rossini about Salieri (continues in next photo):
"Certainly, I did," replied Rossini, "the good old gentleman. He had then a passion for composing canons, and came pretty regularly every day, and took his dessert with us."
"He came to compose canons?" I asked.
"No, to have them sung," answered Rossini. My wife and myself, together with David aud Nozari, who usually dined with us, formed a very respectable vocal quartet. At last, however, we became quite confused with his never-ending canons, and begged him to be a little more sparing of them."
"His opera of Axur is one of my earliest reminiscences," I observed.
"It contains admirable pieces, as do all his operas," said Rossini. "In his Grotta di Trifonio [sic], however, he certainly did not come up, to the poet. Casti's libretto is a real masterpiece. Poor Salieri! Was he not accused of being the cause of Mozart's death?" continued the maestro, becoming somewhnt excited.
"No one believed it," said I, to appease him.
"That makes no difference. The infamous charge was very...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:34mz7c7xjsdabjsjmstqnroi/bafkreicvait5rs5ddcp3kfqi2ag2f4gh3ahjdtdncdyuizqgklhplqqjau@jpeg)
February 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Rossini (allegedly) asking the difficult questions, possibly because his wife and friends had other things to do after dessert besides sing canons. As translated in The Musical World (December 22, 1855).
Christmas Eve is a great time for Victorian ghost stories, such as Walter Thornbury's "The Old-Chapel Master" (1873), originally published in M.E. Braddon's Belgravia Annual and reprinted in various forms across the UK and North America. 1/?
December 24, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Christmas Eve is a great time for Victorian ghost stories, such as Walter Thornbury's "The Old-Chapel Master" (1873), originally published in M.E. Braddon's Belgravia Annual and reprinted in various forms across the UK and North America. 1/?
It's vaguely Beethoven's birthday, which is a good time for pondering how his mythmaking began during his lifetime. This is from J.R. Parker's A Musical Biography, a collection of biographical sketches of "eminent musical characters" published in Boston in 1825.
December 16, 2024 at 4:18 PM
It's vaguely Beethoven's birthday, which is a good time for pondering how his mythmaking began during his lifetime. This is from J.R. Parker's A Musical Biography, a collection of biographical sketches of "eminent musical characters" published in Boston in 1825.
If you (for some reason) want your #ams24 to contain even more weird things people wrote about Salieri, come to the Mozart Society of America's study session! I'm giving a lightning talk on my work on British periodical The Harmonicon and anxieties about Salieri's canonical status in the 1820s.
November 11, 2024 at 3:21 PM
If you (for some reason) want your #ams24 to contain even more weird things people wrote about Salieri, come to the Mozart Society of America's study session! I'm giving a lightning talk on my work on British periodical The Harmonicon and anxieties about Salieri's canonical status in the 1820s.
From David Weiss's outline for his 1970 political thriller The Assassination of Mozart (part of the David Weiss Papers at Temple University). I definitely need to use HAVE QUOTES ABOUT SALIERI as a paper and/or chapter title.
August 11, 2024 at 11:00 PM
From David Weiss's outline for his 1970 political thriller The Assassination of Mozart (part of the David Weiss Papers at Temple University). I definitely need to use HAVE QUOTES ABOUT SALIERI as a paper and/or chapter title.
My articles on Rosa Newmarch and Edward Prime-Stevenson are in the latest Grove Music Online update!
June 26, 2024 at 6:17 PM
My articles on Rosa Newmarch and Edward Prime-Stevenson are in the latest Grove Music Online update!
Imagining Musical Pasts spotted at Concordia!
March 6, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Imagining Musical Pasts spotted at Concordia!
Looking forward to meeting up with new and old friends from the Historical Fictions Research Network today and tomorrow and presenting on gossip, fictional music, and adaptation/revision across Amadeus’s production history!
February 23, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Looking forward to meeting up with new and old friends from the Historical Fictions Research Network today and tomorrow and presenting on gossip, fictional music, and adaptation/revision across Amadeus’s production history!
Please join Shannon Draucker, Fraser Riddell, and me for a roundtable discussion of musical histories, sciences, and fictions in late Victorian queer literature. Hosted by the wonderful Music, Medicine, and History Network on Wednesday 21st February 2024 (1500-1600 GMT / 1000-1100 EST)
February 13, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Please join Shannon Draucker, Fraser Riddell, and me for a roundtable discussion of musical histories, sciences, and fictions in late Victorian queer literature. Hosted by the wonderful Music, Medicine, and History Network on Wednesday 21st February 2024 (1500-1600 GMT / 1000-1100 EST)
Of all the places his work has been alluded to in various programs this week, I was not expecting to see Rudolph Angermüller cited in this confectionary ad/explanation of the history behind the sweets in Amadeus.
February 3, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Of all the places his work has been alluded to in various programs this week, I was not expecting to see Rudolph Angermüller cited in this confectionary ad/explanation of the history behind the sweets in Amadeus.
So, Google thought I was looking for restaurants near me instead of checking program note citation. I would say it’s the oddest tribute to Salieri I’ve encountered this week, but I saw a marionette production of Mozart and Salieri with a comic prologue and a themed cocktail and floral arrangements.
February 2, 2024 at 8:41 PM
So, Google thought I was looking for restaurants near me instead of checking program note citation. I would say it’s the oddest tribute to Salieri I’ve encountered this week, but I saw a marionette production of Mozart and Salieri with a comic prologue and a themed cocktail and floral arrangements.
I wrote a thing for Grove! It expands upon Rudolph Angermüller’s work on Constanze Mozart’s role in reception history to consider gossip, anecdote, and fiction in music biography (something she both contributed to and was the subject of) and the problem of moralizing about composers’ spouses.
October 24, 2023 at 11:59 AM
I wrote a thing for Grove! It expands upon Rudolph Angermüller’s work on Constanze Mozart’s role in reception history to consider gossip, anecdote, and fiction in music biography (something she both contributed to and was the subject of) and the problem of moralizing about composers’ spouses.
I wrote a thing and it is out in the world! This is an expansion of the research I first presented at the Center for Beethoven Research’s biography conference a few years ago, now available in Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory!
October 20, 2023 at 6:42 PM
I wrote a thing and it is out in the world! This is an expansion of the research I first presented at the Center for Beethoven Research’s biography conference a few years ago, now available in Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory!
It’s almost here! (Proof corrections finalized and on the way to the printers!)
October 10, 2023 at 5:06 PM
It’s almost here! (Proof corrections finalized and on the way to the printers!)