Zoekend naar identiteit tussen taal en overtuiging: muziek en theater in Kortrijk tijdens de belle époque
- Type:
- artikel
- Titel:
- Zoekend naar identiteit tussen taal en overtuiging: muziek en theater in Kortrijk tijdens de belle époque
- Andere titel:
- Searching for identity between language and conviction: music and theater in Kortrijk during the belle époque
- Jaar:
- 2023
- URL:
- Universal Resource Locator
- Onderwerp:
- Resounding Libraries: Unfolding Archived Knowledge Through Artistic Research
Theater history
Music history
Catholicism
Nationalism
Operetta
Opera - Taal:
- Engels
- Samenvatting:
- Around 1900, Kortrijk boasted a surprisingly vibrant musical life. Local choirs, brass bands, and symphonic ensembles performed in open-air kiosks and the municipal theatre. Their repertoires—ranging from Peter Benoit to Bizet—reflected a city navigating between Flemish cultural revival and French refinement. The annual travelling theatre fair drew large crowds, much to the dismay of Catholic and Flemish-nationalist circles, who fostered their own artistic platforms in groups like Vlaamsche Zonen. Around 1903, the city intervened: theatre became a public concern, culminating in the construction of a new City Theatre in neo-Flemish style. Music and theatre thus became not only artistic expressions but stages for ideological debate.
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