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Dr Samantha Owens’ research interests are focused on European “art” music of the early modern period, in particular 17th-century German Singballett, early 18th-century German court music, Johann Sigismund Cousser (Kusser), and the early history of the orchestra. She holds a BMus (Hons) and a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (for a thesis entitled “The Württemberg Hofkapelle, c. 1680–1721”). She has held visiting fellowships at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (Germany) and at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (UK). Between June 2009 and December 2010, she was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow, hosted by the Institut für Musik at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). She is currently an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
Recent publications:
Music at German Courts, 1715–1760: Changing Artistic Priorities, ed. & trans. Samantha Owens, Barbara M. Reul, and Janice B. Stockigt (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2011) ISBN 978-1-84383-598-1. Incl. 'The Court of Württemberg-Stuttgart' (pp. 165–196) and, with Barbara M. Reul, ''Das gantze Corpus derer musicirenden Personen': An Introduction to German Hofkapellen' (pp. 1–14)
''Not Always the Same Minuets': Dance at the Wuerttemberg Court, 1662–1711,' The Court Historian 15.2 (2010), pp. 133–44.
‘Johann Sigismund Cousser (Kusser): a "European" in Early Eighteenth-century England and Ireland,’ Händel-Jahrbuch 56 (2010), pp. 445–67.
Johann Sigismund Kusser, Adonis, critical edition (Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2009) ISBN 978-0-89579-650-9.
‘Johann Sigismund Cousser, William III and the Serenata in Early Eighteenth-Century Dublin,’ Eighteenth-Century Music 6/1 (2009), pp. 7–39.
‘'eine liebliche/von vielen Violen bestehende Music'. Ballet instrumentation at German Protestant courts, 1650–1700: a study of libretti in Wolfenbüttel and Stuttgart,’ The Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle 41 (2008), pp. 25–67.
‘‘zum Fürstl: Hoff Staat gehörige Musicalien’: The ownership and dissemination of German court music, 1665–c. 1750,’ in Musik an der Zerbster Residenz (Fasch-Studien 10), ed. Konstanze Musketa and Barbara Reul (Beeskow: Ortus Verlag, 2008), pp. 103–115.
‘On the concept of the Kleine Cammer-Musique in early eighteenth-century German court music,’ in Johann Friedrich Fasch als Instrumentalkomponist (Schriften zur mitteldeutschen Musikgeschichte 14), ed. Konstanze Musketa (Beeskow: Ortus Verlag, 2007), pp.95–107.
‘The Stuttgart Adonis: a recently discovered opera by Johann Sigismund Cousser?,’ in The Musical Times 147 (Autumn 2006), pp.67–80.
‘J. S. Kusser and Italian opera at the Württemberg court before Jommelli,’ in Italian opera in central Europe. Institutions and Ceremonies, ed. Melania Bucciarelli, Norbert Dubowy and Reinhard Strohm (Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2006), pp.99–114.
‘Upgrading from consort to orchestra at the Württemberg court,’ in P. Holman & J. Wainwright, eds., From Renaissance to Baroque. Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp.227–240.
‘Censorship of the goût moderne in 1730s Ludwigsburg and the music of Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello,’ in Eighteenth-century music 2/2 (2005), pp.299–310.
‘“Und mancher grosser Fürst kan ein Apollo seyn”: Erbprinz Friedrich Ludwig von Württemberg (1698-1731),’ Musik in Baden-Württemberg Jahrbuch 2003, pp.177–190.
‘The provenance of the J. F. Fasch concertos in Crown Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Württemberg’s music collection: contextual remarks on the ‘Sammlung Ziegesar’,’ in Johann Friedrich Fasch und der italienische Stil, ed. Konstanze Musketa, Internationale Fasch-Gesellschaft Zerbst (Anhalt-Edition Dessau, 2003), pp.77–90.
‘Professional Women Musicians in early 18th-century Germany,’ in Music & Letters 82 (2001), pp.32–50.
‘Schwartzkopff, Theodor (1659-1732),’ in The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, 2nd edition, eds. S. Sadie and J. Tyrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).
Publications in preparation & in press:
Monograph on the life and music of J. S. Cousser (Kusser), in preparation.
Johann Sigismund Kusser (Cousser), Serenatas for Dublin (Middleton, WI: A-R Editions), forthcoming.
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