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The 'other' Stuart bagpipe: Bonnie Prince Charlie's Musette
In the West Highland Museum there exists a rather worn-looking Musette attached to which there is a plaque that reads ‘Charles Edward Stuart, last PRINCE of the Royal House of Stuart’. Born and raised in the Stuart court in exile in Rome, his father, James Francis Edward had previously held court in Avignon and was brought up at the Stuart court in exile at the Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. There, the Stuarts had enjoyed the support and protection of Louis XIV, himself an enthusiastic Musette player and possibly even the source of the instrument bearing Bonnie Prince Charlie’s name. The Musette in the West Highland Museum was bought by I Skene of Rubislaw (an estate near Aberdeen) in Rome in 1802, supporting its alleged connection to the Stuart court in exile. But what evidence is there that Charles Edward Stuart played the Musette? And what did he play and with whom? Via a study of the Stuart family papers (gifted to the Royal Archive at Windsor Castle by Charles Edward’s brother Cardinal York), this research seminar seeks to provide potential answers to these questions. The paper will be accompanied by a performance of selected works suggested by the study findings.
A lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music, Amanda Babington has published various articles on Handel, her edition of Handel’s Dettingen Te Deum and Dettingen Anthem for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe was published by Bärenreiter in 2016, and she has given talks at Göttingen Handel-Festival. More recently, her research has focused on French Baroque music. Amanda’s research is always informed by her practice as a baroque violinist, recorder player and musette player. She is Artistic Director of Baroque In The North, and plays regularly with many of the leading British and European period-instrument ensembles, as well as with chamber ensembles AB24, Four’s Company and Aberdeen Early Music Collective. Amanda is a Visiting Performance Fellow at Aberdeen University and Director of the University of Manchester Baroque Orchestra. She has given masterclasses at various universities and conservatoires in the UK, and at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in Riga.
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