Walsh in Europe and Beyond: Dissemination and Reception of English Music Prints in the 18th Century: Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald and Universität Greifswald, 25–27 October 2022

The presence of these publications in the British Isles and Continental Europe offers many hints: frequent maritime trade facilitated the shipping of these prints, while individuals and diplomatic networks functioned as intermediaries and conduits for transmission. In his keynote address ‘Cultural Transfer in Music in the Age of Enlightenment: Methodology and Research Questions’ Martin Eybl (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), starting with Gottfried van Swieten's order for English prints, painted a cultural-historical picture that linked dissemination to the concepts of influence, cultural transfer, reception and mobility/migration, as well as discourses on translation studies and histoire croisée. First owners like Charles Wesley or William Felton were nearly exclusively British, and so too are the most important library collections of Walsh's Geminiani prints. Andreas Waczkat (Universität Göttingen) gave a paper, ‘A Most Plenty of Books: Walsh Prints in Gottfried Jacob Jänisch's Hamburg Private Library’, concerning a Hamburg collection of the eighteenth century which was auctioned between 1782 and 1787.