We are delighted to announce the very first recipient of the Peter Sabor Fellowship, awarded by the Burney Society of North America and the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies to promote editing projects in eighteenth-century studies.
Anders Muskens, a PhD in Musicology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen (Germany), was selected for his project entitled "Reviving Franz Danzi’s Cleopatra (1780): Editing a New Performing Edition".
This project will produce the first modern performing edition of Franz Danzi and Neumann’s Cleopatra, a melodrama first performed in Mannheim in 1780. The edition will support the revival of this neglected eighteenth-century work occasioned by the Danzi bicentenary year, marking the two hundredth anniversary of the composer’s death in 1826. It will also lay the foundation for a later performances and a published edition, making the work accessible to performers, scholars, and institutions interested in eighteenth-century theatre, music, declamation, and the Mannheim school.
