著者

井上 さつき

出版者

愛知県立芸術大学

雑誌

愛知県立芸術大学紀要 = The bulletin of the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music (ISSN:03898369)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.35, pp.3-22, 2006-03-31

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Though the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition is famous for Javanese gamelans and annamite dancers, which attracted many French musicians, the official musical events of great size, Auditions musicales, were also mounted during the Exposition. This paper discusses the process of the programming of the Auditions musicales through documents that the author discovered at the Archives Nationales de France. There was friction between the organizers of the Exposition and the committee of the events concerning the content of the events. Georges Berger, one of the general directors of the Exposition, reduced the budget for the official grand orchestral concerts and planned a competition of musique pittoresque, i. e. French and European folk music, according to the proposal of a republican deputy for Bouches-du-Rhone with a view to curry favor with the constituency. (Berger was himself elected as a republican deputy shortly afterward.) Although it seems to be irrelevant to politics, the official musical events of the 1889 Exposition were influenced by the republican's power.