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DESCRIPTION:The Doctoral Colloquium is open to all.\n\nDoctoral Colloquium:
  Kristin Franseen\n\n\n	Find out more about attending events at Schulich\n
 \n	\n	Title: Reconsidering Gossip: Unreliable Sources in the History of Comp
 oser Biography\n\n	 \n\n	Abstract:\n		What do we do with sources in music hist
 ory that we know to be dubious\, incomplete\, biased\, or just plain wrong
 ? It’s tempting to ignore them altogether—as Shakespeare scholar James Sha
 piro has written about literary conspiracy theories\, there can be an unde
 rstandable fear of giving bogus claims “unearned legitimacy” in academic d
 iscourse (2010). But many dubious sources have a long history of their own
  that refuses to be easily dismissed. This presentation considers the use 
 (and\, in some cases\, invention) of evidence within two groups of obvious
 ly unreliable historical writings on 19th-century music: the Hüttenbrenner
  brothers’ reminiscences of their studies with Salieri and friendship with
  Schubert (1825 and 1858) and Edward Prime-Stevenson’s queer readings of B
 eethoven’s life and instrumental music (ca. 1905\, 1909\, and 1928).\n\n	\n
 		\n			\n				\n					\n						\n							\n								\n									\n										\n											\n												The Hüttenbrenner accounts remain frequently (if often
  critically) cited in important scholarship on Schubert and Salieri (see\,
  for example\, Rice 1998 and Gibbs 2000)\, while Prime-Stevenson’s Beethov
 en project remains obscure even within queer musicology and more experimen
 tal approaches to reception history. Part of this has to do with their aut
 horial positions\, publication histories\, and intended audiences: the Hüt
 tenbrenners wrote firsthand accounts of their experiences for a musical pu
 blic (albeit while repeating conversations that supposedly took place year
 s or decades earlier)\, while Prime-Stevenson self-published his work for 
 a select group of personal friends and sexologists. Both sources\, however
 \, include obvious errors of fact and interpretation and rely upon an ecle
 ctic mix of fiction\, semifictional anecdote\, and biographical speculatio
 n. Drawing on Melanie Unseld’s work on 19th-century composer biography as 
 a literary genre (2014)\, I argue that both also reflect shifting narrativ
 es of influence\, canonicity\, and identity across the 19th and early 20th
  centuries that merit further attention. By exploring not just that certai
 n biographical sources are unreliable\, but considering how and why\, thos
 e of us working in historiography\, critical biography studies\, and recep
 tion studies can more fully explore what incorrect musical knowledge does 
 and how it circulates.\n\n												 \n											\n										\n									\n								\n							\n						\n					\n				\n			\n		\n\n		Biography:\n			Kristin M. 
 Franseen is a FRQSC postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University\, where sh
 e is also a research associate with the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. She 
 received her PhD in musicology from ɬ�﷬ in 2019. Her researc
 h appears in Music & Letters\, 19th-Century Music\, the Journal of Histori
 cal Fictions\, and the Cahiers de la Société québécoise de recherche en mu
 sique\, and her monograph Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musi
 cology of Vernon Lee\, Rosa Newmarch\, and Edward Prime-Stevenson is forth
 coming from Clemson University Press in 2023. She is currently working on 
 two projects: (1) a critical look at early 20th-century music critic and a
 mateur sexologist Edward Prime-Stevenson’s listening practices and self-pu
 blishing activities and (2) an examination of biofictional gossip and the 
 post-truth in Antonio Salieri’s reception history. Her other research inte
 rests include the depiction of female philosophers in 18-century comic ope
 ra\, women in the history of music theory\, and early metronome advertisin
 g.\n	\n\n	\n		\n			\n				\n					\n						\n							\n								\n									\n										\n											 \n										\n									\n								\n							\n						\n					\n				\n			\n		\n	\n\n	\n		 \n\n
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LOCATION:C-201\, Strathcona Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1E3\,
  555 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Doctoral Colloquium (Music): Kristin Franseen 
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 istin-franseen-344790
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