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Contributors xv
Preface xxi
v
vi Contents
1. Introduction 71
2. Literature review 72
3. Methodology 74
4. Results and discussions 77
5. Conclusions 81
A. Appendix 1 82
B. Appendix 2 84
References 85
1. Introduction 107
2. Theoretical background 108
3. Research methodological framework 111
4. Questionnaire survey 113
5. Conclusion and discussion 120
A. Appendix 1 121
References 124
Contents vii
1. Introduction 127
2. The resource-service system literature and its limitations 129
3. Research design 132
4. Results—Analysis of Riversimple—A car-as-a-service company 136
5. Discussion and conclusion—Resource-service systems 140
References 143
1. Introduction 207
2. Sustainable finance and circular economy policies 208
3. The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk and the circular risk 212
4. Sustainable finance and circular economy for a sustainable
capital market 216
5. Results and discussion 221
6. Conclusion 223
References 225
1. Introduction 293
2. Literature review 294
3. Methodology 301
4. Econometric estimations 302
5. Conclusions and policy recommendations 304
References 305
25. New age zero waste sustainable apparel industry: Design practices,
innovative approaches, and technological intervention 489
Indranil Saha and Deepak John Mathew
1. Introduction 489
2. Features and ecological challenges in the apparel industry 490
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26. A conceptual and empirical study into the process and emerging
patterns enabling the transition to a circular economy: Evidence from the
Dutch dairy sector 507
Hilde Engels and Jan Jonker
1. Introduction 535
2. Theoretical framing of the challenges of circular economy 536
3. The importance of leadership in circular economy 537
4. The key factor to success in circular economy: Collaborative leadership 538
5. Discussion 539
6. Conclusion 541
References 542
30. The potential for a circular economy in the nonroad mobile machinery
industry—The case of Linde Material Handling GmbH 567
Sergey Makaryan, Holger Hoppe, and Karen Fortuin
1. Introduction 567
2. Methodology 569
3. Results 570
4. Discussion and recommendations 579
5. Conclusion 581
References 583
1. Introduction 587
2. A cleaner future—A waste and resource challenge 588
3. Why a circular economy? 592
4. Barriers—What is in the way? 597
5. Enablers—Clear the way 599
6. A circular vision for the UK battery value chain 605
References 607
3. Results 625
4. Discussion 629
5. Conclusions 644
Acknowledgments 645
References 645
1. Introduction 651
2. Methodology 651
3. Regional context for Armenia and Portugal 652
4. Thematic areas of research 653
5. An overview of circular economy efforts in Armenia 653
6. An overview of circular economy efforts in Portugal 655
7. A brief discussion: Observations from Portugal's unique permacircular system 657
8. A brief discussion: Observations from Armenia's community-government interactions 658
9. Insights 658
10. Conclusions 658
References 660
Index 663
Contributors
Sami G. Al-Ghamdi
Division of Sustainable Development, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa
University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
Omar Amoudi
College of Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Muscat, Oman
Fenna Blomsma
Universit€at Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
Geraldine Brennan
Imperial College London, Centre for Environmental Policy, Faculty of Natural Sciences,
London, United Kingdom; Irish Manufacturing Research Co., Dublin, Ireland
Anton Brummelhuis
Head of Sustainable Innovation & Sustainable Design, Signify, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Nicola Callaghan
School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University,
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Joana Costa
DEGEIT, Universidade de Aveiro, GOVCOPP and INESCTEC, Aveiro, Portugal
Marco Cucchi
Gruppo Ceramiche Gresmalt, Sassuolo, Italy
Dimo Dimov
School of Management, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Azadeh Dindarian
Co-founder, NA, Women AI Academy & Consulting GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Hilde Engels
Department of Strategy, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
xv
xvi Contributors
K.I. Evangelinos
Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece
Karen Fortuin
Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Robin Foster
HSSMI Limited, London, United Kingdom
G. Fountoulakis
Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece
T^ania Freitas
FEP—Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Victor Fukumoto
Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Fernando E. Garcı́a-Muiña
Department of Business Administration (ADO), Applied Economics II and Fundamentals of
Economic Analysis, Rey-Juan-Carlos University, Madrid, Spain
Darya Gerasimenko
Professor of Sustainable Development at Samara National Research University (SSAU), Russia;
Lecturer in Economics at St Gallen University (HSG); Co-facilitator, co-creator, Science and
cole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL)) of
Mindfulness Lead (as a Senior Researcher at E
“Beyond Waste: Circular Resources Lab 2018” in canton Vaud, Switzerland
Helena I. Gomes
Food, Water, Waste Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham,
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Emma Goosey
Envaqua Research Limited, Warwick, United Kingdom
Alistair Ho
HSSMI Limited, London, United Kingdom
Contributors xvii
Holger Hoppe
Sustainability Management Department, Linde Material Handling GmbH, Aschaffenburg,
Germany
Beijia Huang
School of Environment and Architecture, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,
Shanghai, China
M. Hughes
Wood Material Technology Research Group, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems,
School of Chemical Technology, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland; Faculty of Health Science,
Department of Human Care Engineering, Nihon Fukushi University, Aichi, Japan
Susan L. Hull
Department of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom
R. Husgafvel
Wood Material Technology Research Group, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems,
School of Chemical Technology, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland; Faculty of Health Science,
Department of Human Care Engineering, Nihon Fukushi University, Aichi, Japan
Konstantinos Iatridis
School of Management, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Jan Jonker
Department of Strategy, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Rene Kemp
United Nations University-MERIT, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
A. Kipritsis
Business Economics and Environmental Technology Laboratory, Department of Environmental
Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Nermin Kişi
Zonguldak B€
ulent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Turkey
G. Lanaras-Mamounis
Business Economics and Environmental Technology Laboratory, Department of Environmental
Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
L. Linkosalmi
Clean Technologies Research Group, Wood Material Technology Research Group, Department
of Bioproducts and Biosystems, School of Chemical Technology, Aalto University, Espoo,
Finland
Cembalo Luigi
University of Naples Federico II, Department of Agricultural Sciences, AgEcon and Policy
Group, Italy
xviii Contributors
Warren E. Mabee
Department of Geography and Planning/School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston,
ON, Canada
Sergey Makaryan
Sustainability Management Department, Linde Material Handling GmbH, Aschaffenburg,
Germany; Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen,
Netherlands
Mehzabeen Mannan
Division of Sustainable Development, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa
University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
Thomas Marinelli
Head of Sustainable Innovation & Sustainable Design, Signify, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Borrello Massimiliano
University of Naples Federico II, Department of Agricultural Sciences, AgEcon and Policy
Group, Italy
William M. Mayes
Department of Geography, Geology and Environment, University of Hull, Hull,
United Kingdom
Erica Mazerolle-Castillo
Social Innovation & Communities of Practice Lead at Impact Hub Lausanne/Geneva
(IHL/IHG); Co-facilitator, co-creator of “Beyond Waste: Circular Resources Lab 2018”,
Switzerland
M. Sonia Medina-Salgado
Department of Business Administration (ADO), Applied Economics II and Fundamentals of
Economic Analysis, Rey-Juan-Carlos University, Madrid, Spain
O. Mikroni
Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece
Eva Militaru
National Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection, Bucharest, Romania
Irina Mkrtchyan
“ISSD - Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development of Communities” NGO, Yerevan,
Armenia
Cristina Mocanu
National Research Institute for Labour and Social Protection; University of Bucharest, Bucharest,
Romania
Ioannis E. Nikolaou
Business Economics and Environmental Technology Laboratory, Department of Environmental
Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Piotr Nowakowski
Faculty of Transport, Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland
Satoshi Ohnishi
Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Industrial
Administration, Noda-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan
Juyeon Park
National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Electrochemistry Group, Teddington, United Kingdom
Seigo Robinson
University College London, Central House, London, United Kingdom
Indranil Saha
Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
D. Sakaguchi
Faculty of Health Science, Department of Human Care Engineering, Nihon Fukushi University,
Aichi, Japan; Clean Technologies Research Group, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems,
Aalto University, School of Chemical Technology, Espoo, Finland
Anastasios Sepetis
Department of Business Administration, University of West Attica and Hellenic Open
University, Athens, Greece
Davide Settembre-Blundo
Gruppo Ceramiche Gresmalt, Sassuolo, Italy
Keith R. Skene
Biosphere Research Institute, Angus, United Kingdom
xx Contributors
Alexandros I. Stefanakis
Environmental Engineering and Management Laboratory, School of Chemical and
Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Krzysztof Szwarc
Institute of Computer Science, University of Silesia in Katowice, Sosnowiec, Poland
Mike Tennant
Imperial College London, Centre for Environmental Policy, Faculty of Natural Sciences,
London, United Kingdom
Tihomir Tomic
Department of Energy, Power Engineering and Environment, Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Thomas A. Tsalis
Business Economics and Environmental Technology Laboratory, Department of Environmental
Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Alisha Tuladhar
School of Management, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Serdar T€
urkeli
United Nations University-MERIT, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Konstantinos I. Vatalis
Department of Mineral Resources Engineering, University of Western Macedonia; Department
of Environmental Engineering and Antipollution Control, Technological Educational Institute of
Western Macedonia (TEI), Kozani, Greece
P. Vouros
Department of Environment, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece
Mariusz Wala
PST Transgór S.A, Rybnik, Poland
K.S. Winans
UCD Industrial Ecology Program, Davis, CA, United States
Circular economy is today a rising and widely discussed topic among professionals, aca-
demics, and the public. The trigger for this increasing attraction to this relatively new
concept is the gradual realization that the way our economies and societies have grown
over the last 50 years has caused global environmental problems. We have experienced an
unforeseen and continuous increase in materials extraction and consumption in our soci-
eties, doubled the production of goods, and quadrupled our economic development,
reaching the smallest ever recorded percentage of people living under the poverty thresh-
old. However, this much-desired growth and improvement of our global living standards
has also resulted in tremendous biodiversity loss, increasing water stress and greenhouse
gas emissions, and ever-progressing climate change.
While the necessity to tackle these global environmental issues effectively is now rec-
ognized, we are still trying to identify the means to do that, i.e., to reach the goal of a truly
sustainable society. While the discussion on sustainable society and economy is ongoing,
it is clear that we need a new narrative, i.e., a new direction and scientific and epistemo-
logical theoretical frameworks. Circular economy is essentially an upcoming concept that
could create the conditions to overcome the limitations of the existing linear economic
model (take–produce–dispose) and focus on more efficient use of materials and flow opti-
mization through engineering advances to preserve natural resources.
However, to achieve feasible sustainable solutions, the interface between economy,
policy, and engineering, and implementation and production should be viewed from a
different angle. A single environmental or technical approach is not sufficient, and a
wider view is needed of the way we deal with environmental issues and industrial pro-
cesses, to include goals such as social justice, poverty alleviation, and global and local con-
nections. Hence, to get the answers and the solutions we seek, we see circular economy as
a necessary vehicle to achieve the concept of sustainability, i.e., we believe that these two
terms go hand-in-hand, thanks to social equity, economic growth, and environmental
protection.
The new concept of circular economy and sustainability should be built on three main
pillars: (i) environmental engineering, (ii) business, management, and economy, and (iii)
society. The challenge now is to investigate the interconnections, interrelations, inter-
actions, and synergies between these three pillars and how these relations are or can
be realized in the real world. This is exactly the main motivation and the rationale behind
this book. With this book we wanted to explore this new approach of circular economy
and sustainability through chapters that would touch on and discuss different solutions
and concepts to implement circular economy, viewed from multiple different angles.
xxi
xxii Preface
The response was excellent, with more than 100 chapter proposals received. There-
fore, we consulted Elsevier and they happily agreed to publish a second volume of this
book, so that more chapters could be accepted. Thus, after the initial screening of the
chapter proposals, the overall outcome is impressive: 63 chapters written by 198 authors
from 33 different countries from all continents. The separation into two volumes was
based on the contents: the first volume of the book includes chapters that focus more
on the management and policy aspects, while the second volume deals mostly with
the engineering and technology aspect. This two-volume book is the first to present
an integrated approach of circular economy in various fields and disciplines, and to relate
it to the goal of a sustainable society.
We hope that the readers, including professionals, academics, engineers, consultants,
researchers, scientists, government agency employees, industrial stakeholders/entities,
and students, will find the information provided here valuable for their work and tasks
and useful for the fulfillment of their goals. We also hope that this book will contribute
to a better understanding of the circular economy concept and to a clear definition of
its contents.
Alexandros Stefanakis
Ioannis Nikolaou
CHAPTER 1
1. Introduction
Today, circular economy (CE) is considered to be a new concept, which has gained great
momentum among scholars and practitioners (Su et al., 2013; Hart and Pomponi, 2021;
Lewandowski, 2016; Nikolaou et al., 2021; Webster, 2021). Essentially, the term CE
consists of two general components, i.e., “circular” and “economy.” The former com-
ponent implies that products and services should be organized in a way that slows, nar-
rows, and closes the loop of materials and resources within organizations’ production
processes (Bocken et al., 2016). Thus, several strategies have been advocated to enable
the shift from the conventional linear and behavioral thinking of organizations, con-
sumers, and decision-makers to a CE concept (Michelini et al., 2017). The later com-
ponent is focused on economic aspects such as production procedures and financial
outcomes (Bocken et al., 2021; Genovese et al., 2017).
In essence, the majority of existing studies have focused on the circular side of the
concept and primarily on engineering processes. Korhonen et al. (2004) pointed out that,
despite the potential for engineering and nature-based sciences to support and facilitate
modern societies in introducing the principles of CE into their day-to-day operation,
they have failed to make comprehensible systems by drawing insights from management
science. Two very significant (economic and management) aspects to achieve the prin-
ciples of CE in modern societies are through strengthening supply and demand sides.
This distinction between engineering/nature-based sciences and management/eco-
nomic sciences has been mainly examined at a threefold level of analysis. At the first level,
a single firm is examined, which adopts various practices to change its conventional
model, e.g., adopting a circular business model through reducing, reusing, recycling,
and redesigning materials and waste (Franco, 2017). The next level implies collective
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2. Theoretical background
Today, CE is an overused concept in the current literature but without an uncontested and
a clear definition. Many scholars and organizations have conducted studies to collect and
analyze the bulk of current definitions and establish a more comprehend definition for CE.
Having analyzed the current literature, Kirchherr et al. (2017) identified 114 CE defini-
tions, 3% of which promote a hierarchy of waste and only 40% of the 114 definitions have
focused on a system analysis. Similarly, Korhonen et al. (2018a) have classified CE defini-
tions, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation definition (EMF_D), into two cate-
gories. The former category of definitions utilizes some key traits of EMF_D such as
“restorative,” “regenerative,” “reuse,” “recycle,” and “recovery.” The latter category of
definitions analyzes key concepts such as “reduce the use of virgin materials,”
“restoration,” “recycling,” “sustainable economy,” and “eco-efficiency.” However,
Korhonen et al. (2018b) have developed a CE definition that emphasizes shifting the
behavior of consumers and producers from a linear to a circular state.
By studying the existing literature, Homrich et al. (2018) identified that most current
definitions place emphasis on the effective exploitation of existing materials and energy,
as well as on the use of less virgin natural resources, by introducing longevity-thinking
into the design procedures of products. They have also settled on a definition for CE that
is focused on combining economic and engineering aspects by closing materials loops,
A review of circular economy literature 3
with simultaneous economic benefits (win-win solutions). Having analyzed many def-
initions of CE, Prieto-Sandoval et al. (2018) identified that the key points of most of
the existing definitions put emphasis on closing the loop through transformation, distri-
bution, use, and recovery of materials. By basing it on EMF_D, Geissdoerfer et al. (2017)
defined CE by highlighting the “regenerative” concept of use of materials through low-
ering, closing, and narrowing the loops of materials and energy.
Furthermore, many scholars have endeavored to explore these definitions in a more
operational way by discussing them in tandem with the principles of sustainable devel-
opment (Alonso-Almeida et al., 2020). Correspondingly, several models have been
advocated as suitable to quantify different principles of CE (e.g., reuse, recycle, and
reduce). A well-known and complete model has been provided by Potting et al.
(2017), where three phases are considered vital to move an economy from the linear
to the circular form. These phases are the efficient use of materials (e.g., recover, recycle),
the extended longevity of products (e.g., repurpose, remanufacture, refurbish, repair, and
reuse), and smart products (e.g., reduce, rethink, and refuse).
To study CE subjects, many literature review studies have been conducted that exam-
ine strategies, practices, and frameworks suitable for implementing the principles of CE
(Merli et al., 2018; Sassanelli et al., 2019). By conducting a literature review at the micro-
level, L€
udeke-Freund et al. (2019) recognized six types of circular business models found
in everyday business operation, including the recycling type, business to business (B2B),
business to customer (B2C), business model (BM), customer to customer (C2C), and
circular economy business model. Similarly, Urbinati et al. (2017) proposed a taxonomy
concerning circular business models, which are based on internal incentives for businesses
to make a value proposition to their customers by adopting CE practices, and external
incentives for businesses to adjust their operation in an institutional context in relation
to CE. Merli et al. (2018) identified that many of the existing studies regarding CE
pay more attention to the institutional effects of production and consumption processes.
By reviewing current techniques and methods of CE, Sassanelli et al. (2019) emphasized
the move from an end-of-life to closed-loop thinking for product design. They also
recorded all the current measurement and assessment techniques regarding circularity
performance of products such as life cycle analysis, multicriteria decision-making
methods, and design for the circular economy. In the same way, a taxonomy of CE mea-
surement performance frameworks has been presented by Saidani et al. (2019) including
10 categories of indicators classified in a three-level context, i.e., micro-, meso-, and
macro-level.
Most of the current literature review studies mainly focus on analyzing only one level
of CE literature (e.g., micro-level), one side of the economy (e.g., consumption), or one
principle of CE (e.g., remanufacturing). Although the focus on only one level or one
topic seems to be methodically correct, it nevertheless alienates the findings from the
leading objectives of a concept like CE. Indeed, the description of each level itself could
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ultimately help reduce the consumption of virgin natural resources without taking into
account the greater picture of the global environmental problems and certainly the over-
all solution to such problems. It is likely that the existing experience of the other levels
would form a good groundwork for designing adequate CE frameworks to solve envi-
ronmental problems through a systemic and systematic approach. One further substantial
weakness of the current literature reviews is their emphasis on the analysis of the CE con-
cept through one scientific principle such as environmental, management sciences, or
engineering sciences. However, the concept of CE is also associated with topics of dif-
ferent academic fields, which are necessary and useful to solve the environmental prob-
lems. Thus, several studies to date promote the interdisciplinary nature of these issues
(Korhonen et al., 2018a,b).
3. Methodology
This study conducts a systematic review of the current literature regarding CE from
engineering/nature-based and management/economic-based perspectives (Nikolaou
et al., 2021). This review is based on quantitative and qualitative approaches. Particularly,
a bibliometric methodology is utilized to assist in conducting quantitative and qualitative
research.
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research questions. This section is considered very substantial since it provides the essen-
tial information to examine the concept of CE from two basic academic fields:
engineering/nature-based and management/economic-based sciences. The next step
contributes to the analysis of the most common techniques and methods used to describe
the most crucial topics of the current literature. The fourth step presents the results of this
research and the final step provides the implications for the engineering and management
literature.
As a first step, the appropriate scientific databases are selected, considering where the
majority of the relative studies are available. For the scope of this study, the best-known
and most scientifically transparent databases for finding journals are Scopus, Scholar
Google, and the ISI Web of Knowledge. In particular, the choice of such databases is
based on certain criteria such as the quantity and the quality of scientific studies that
are published in them. The second step focuses on designing a methodology to include
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at the Italian opera in Paris; but the only foundation for such a report
seems to be that it was not uncommon for violinist composers of that
period to enlist the aid of their friends in writing for the orchestra.
Viotti was a broadly educated musician, whose experience with
orchestras was wide.
Second in importance to the concertos are the duets for two violins
written during his stay in Hamburg. These are considered second in
musical charm only to Spohr’s pieces in the same manner. That
Viotti was somewhat low in spirit when he was at work on them,
exiled as he was from London and Paris, is shown by the few words
prefixed to one of the sets, ‘This work is fruit of the leisure which
misfortune has brought me. Some pieces came to me in grief, others
in hope.’
The list of the men who came to him for instruction while he was in
Paris contains names that even today have an imposing ring. Most
prominent among them are Rode, Cartier, and Durand. And among
those who were not actually his pupils but who accepted him as their
ideal and modelled themselves after him were Rodolphe Kreutzer
and Pierre Baillot. These men are the very fountain head of most
violin music and playing of the nineteenth century. They set the
standard of excellence in style and technique by which Spohr and
later Vieuxtemps ruled themselves.
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Before considering their work, the development of violin music in
Germany during the eighteenth century must be noticed. The
influence of the Italians was not less strong here than in France.
Both Biber and Strungk had come under it in the late seventeenth
century, Strungk being, as we know, personally acquainted with
Corelli and at one time associating closely with him in Rome. The
German violinists of the eighteenth century either went to Italy to
study, or came under the influence of various Italians who passed
through the chief German cities on concert tours.
Most conspicuous among those who were actually his pupils was
Johann Gottlieb Graun, brother of the still familiar Carl Heinrich. But
Graun was not content with instruction in Germany alone, and
betook himself to Tartini in Padua. After his return to his native land,
he eventually found his place at the court of Frederick the Great,
who was still crown prince. With him at this time were Quantz, the
flute player, and Franz Benda. After the accession of Frederick to the
throne of Prussia, Graun was made first violin and concert master in
the royal orchestra; and he held this place until his death in 1771.
His compositions, like all others for the violin at this period, are
hardly more than imitations of the Italian masterpieces. And like
Pisendel, his importance is in the improvement of the state of
instrumental music in Germany, and especially of the orchestra at
Berlin.
His successor in this royal orchestra was Franz Benda, who, not only
by reason of the romantic wanderings of his life, is one of the most
interesting figures in the history of music in Germany during the
eighteenth century. His father, Hans Georg, had been a sort of
wandering player, as well as a weaver; and his brothers, Johann,
Georg, and Joseph, were all musicians who won a high place in their
day. Georg was perhaps the most distinguished of the family, but in
the history of violin-music Franz occupies a more important place.
His playing was admired for its warm, singing quality, which showed
to such advantages in all slow movements that musicians would
come long distances to hear him play an adagio. Burney heard him
in 1772 and was impressed by the true feeling in his playing. Burney,
too, mentioned that in all Benda’s compositions for the violin there
were no passages which should not be played in a singing and
expressive manner. He went on to say that Benda’s playing was
distinguished in this quality from that of Tartini, Somis, and Veracini,
and that it was something all his own which he had acquired in his
early association with singers.
His works for the violin are numerous, but only a small part of them
was published, and this posthumously. In spite of the often lovely
melodies in the slow movements they have not been able to outlive
their own day. Wasielewski calls attention to the general use of
conventional arpeggio figures in the long movements, which,
characteristic of a great deal of contemporary music for the violin,
may have been written with the idea of offering good technical
exercise in the art of bowing.
Among Benda’s many pupils the two most significant are his own
son, Carl, and Friedrich Wilhelm Rust. The former seems to have
inherited a great part of his father’s skill and style. The sonatas of the
latter are among the best compositions written in Germany for the
violin in the second half of the eighteenth century. Rust died in
February, 1798. His name is remembered as much for his sonatas
for pianoforte as for his violin compositions. Another pupil, Carl
Haack, lived until September, 1819, and thus was able to carry the
Benda tradition over into the nineteenth century. On the whole Franz
Benda may be said to have founded a school of violin playing in
Berlin which has influenced the growth of music for that instrument in
Germany. Its chief characteristic was the care given to simplicity and
straightforwardness, especially in the playing of slow movements
and melodies, which stands out quite distinctly against the current of
more or less specious virtuosity running across the century.
V
Meanwhile about the orchestra at Mannheim there was a band of
gifted young men whose importance in the development of the
symphony and other allied forms has been but recently recognized,
and now, it seems, can hardly be overestimated. The most
remarkable of these was J. C. Stamitz, a Bohemian born in 1719,
who died when less than forty years old. His great accomplishments
in the domains of orchestral music have been explained elsewhere
in this series. In the matter of violin music he can hardly be said to
show any unusual independence of the Italians, but in the meagre
accounts of his life there is enough to show that he was a great
violinist. He was the teacher of his two sons, Carl (1746-1801) and
Anton (b. 1753), the latter of whom apparently grew up in Paris,
where the father, by the way, had been well known at the house of
La Pouplinière. Anton, as we shall see, was the teacher of Rodolphe
Kreutzer, already mentioned as one of the great teachers at the
Paris Conservatory in the first of the nineteenth century.
In Vienna the Italian influence was supreme down to nearly the end
of the century. The first of the Viennese violinists to win an
international and a lasting renown was Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (b.
1739), the friend of Haydn and Gluck. Though two of his teachers,
König and Ziegler, were Austrians, a third, who perfected him, was
an Italian, Trani. Through Trani Dittersdorf became familiar with the
works of Corelli, Tartini, and Ferrari, after which he formed his own
style. Practically the first German to draw a circle of pupils about him
was Anton Wranitzky (b. 1761). Among his pupils the most
distinguished was Ignaz Schuppanzigh, who, as the leader of the
Schuppanzigh quartet, won for himself an immortal fame, and really
set the model for most quartet playing throughout the nineteenth
century. He was the son of a professor at the Realschule in Vienna.
From boyhood he showed a zeal for music, at first making himself a
master of the viola. At the time Beethoven was studying counterpoint
with Albrechtsberger he was taking lessons on the viola with
Schuppanzigh. Later, however, Schuppanzigh gave up the viola for
the violin. His most distinguished work was as a quartet leader, but
he won fame as a solo player as well; and when the palace of Prince
Rasoumowsky was burned in 1815, he went off on a concert tour
through Germany, Poland and Russia which lasted many years. He
was a friend not only of Beethoven, but of Haydn, Mozart, and of
Schubert as well; and was the principal means of bringing the
quartet music of these masters to the knowledge of the Viennese
public. He died of paralysis, March 2, 1830. Among his pupils the
most famous was Mayseder, at one time a member of the quartet.
VI
Before concluding this chapter and passing on to a discussion of the
development of violin music in the nineteenth century a few words
must be said of the compositions for the violin by those great
masters who were not first and foremost violinists. Among these,
four may claim our attention: Handel, Bach, Haydn, and Mozart.
Handel is not known to have given much time to the violin, but it is
said that when he chose to play on it, his tone was both strong and
beautiful. He wrote relatively little music for it. Twelve so-called solo
sonatas with figured bass (harpsichord or viol) were published in
1732 as opus 1. Of these only three are for the violin: the third, tenth,
and twelfth. The others are for flute. Apart from a few characteristic
violin figures, chiefly of the rocking variety, these solo sonatas might
very well do for clavier with equal effect. There is the sane, broad
mood in them all which one associates with Handel. In the edition of
Handel’s works by the German Handel Society, there are three
additional sonatas for violin—in D major, A major, and E major.
These seem to be of somewhat later origin than the others, but they
are in the same form, beginning with a slow movement, followed by
allegro, largo, and final allegro, as in most of the cyclical
compositions of that time. One cannot deny to these sonatas a
manly dignity and charm. They are in every way plausible as only
Handel knows how to be; yet they have neither the grace of Corelli,
nor the deep feeling of Bach. One may suspect them of being, like
the pieces for clavier, tossed off easily from his pen to make a little
money. What is remarkable is that sure as one might be of this, one
would yet pay to hear them.
There are besides these solo sonatas for violin or flute and figured
bass, nine sonatas for two violins, or violin and flute with figured
bass, and seven sonatas, opus 5, for two instruments, probably
intended for two violins.
But the polyphonic style of the sonatas for violin alone is peculiarly a
German inheritance. Walter and Biber were conspicuous for the use
of double stops and an approach to polyphonic style. Most
remarkable of all was a pupil of the old Danish organist, Buxtehude,
Nikolaus Bruhns (1665-1697), who was able to play two parts on his
violin and at the same time add one or two more with his feet on the
organ pedals. Though Corelli touched gently upon the polyphonic
style in the movements of the first six of his solo sonatas, the
polyphonic style was maintained mostly by the Germans. As Bach
would write chorus, fugue, or concerto in this style, so did he write
for the violin alone.
Of the six works the first three are sonatas, in the sense of the
sonate da chiesa of Corelli, serious and not conspicuously
rhythmical. The last three are properly suites, for they consist of
dance movements. The most astonishing of all the pieces is the
Chaconne, at the end of the second suite. Here Bach has woven a
series of variations over a simple, yet beautiful, ground, which finds
an equal only in the great Passacaglia for the organ.
There are besides these sonatas for violin alone, six sonatas for
harpsichord and violin, which are among the most beautiful of his
compositions; and a sonata in E minor and a fugue in G minor for
violin with figured bass. It is interesting to note that the six sonatas
for harpsichord and violin differ from similar works by Corelli and by
Handel. Here there is no affair with the figured bass; but the part for
the harpsichord is elaborately constructed, and truly, from the point
of view of texture, more important than that for the violin.
Bach wrote at least five concertos for one or two violins during his
stay at Cöthen. One of these is included among the six concertos
dedicated to the Margrave of Brandenburg. All of these have been
rearranged for harpsichord, and apparently among the harpsichord
concertos there are three which were originally for violin but have not
survived in that shape. The concertos, even more than the sonatas,
are not essentially violin music, but are really organ music. The style
is constantly polyphonic and the violin solos hardly stand out
sufficiently to add a contrasting spot of color to the whole. Bach’s
great work for the violin was the set of six solo sonatas. These must
indeed be reckoned, wholly apart from the instrument, as among the
great masterpieces in the musical literature of the world.
The young Mozart was hardly less proficient on the violin than he
was on the harpsichord, a fact not surprising in view of his father’s
recognized skill as a teacher in this special branch of music. But he
seems to have treated his violin with indifference and after his
departure from Salzburg for Paris to have quite neglected his
practice, much to his father’s concern. The most important of his
compositions for the violin are the five concertos written in Salzburg
in 1775. They were probably written for his own use, but just how
closely in conjunction with the visit of the Archduke Maximilian to
Salzburg in April of that year cannot be stated positively. Several
serenades and the little opera, Il re pastore, were written for the fêtes
given in honor of the same young prince. The concertos belong to
the same period. In Köchel’s Index they are numbers 207, 211, 216,
218, and 219. A sixth, belonging to a somewhat later date, bears the
number 268. Of these the first in B-flat was completed on April 14,
1775, the second, in D, June 14, the third, in G, September 12, the
fourth, in D, in October, and the fifth, in A, quite at the end of the
year.
On the other hand, we have found the violin masters like Corelli and
Tartini writing sonatas for violin, with figured bass for harpsichord,
lute, or even viol. Such sonatas were often called solo sonatas, as in
the case of those of Handel, recently mentioned. The accompanying
instrument had no function but to add harmonies, and a touch of
imitation in the written bass part, here and there.
Between these two extremes lies the sonata with harpsichord
obbligato, that is to say, with a harpsichord part which was not an
accompaniment but an essential part of the whole. In these cases
the music was generally polyphonic in character. The violin might
carry one or two parts of the music, the harpsichord two or three.
Very frequently, if the instruments played together no more than
three parts, the composition was called a Trio. The sonatas by J. S.
Bach for harpsichord and violin are of this character. Though the
harpsichord carries on more of the music than the violin, both
instruments are necessary to the complete rendering of the music.
Mozart must have frequently added improvised parts for the violin to
many of his sonatas written expressly for the keyboard instrument.
Among his earliest works one finds sonatas for clavecin with a free
part for violin, for violin or flute, for violin or flute and 'cello. Oftenest
the added part does little more than duplicate the melody of the part
for clavecin, with here and there an imitation or a progression of
thirds or sixths. But among his later works are sonatas for pianoforte
with added accompaniment for violin in which the two instruments
contribute something like an equal share to the music, which are the
ancestors of the sonatas for violin and piano by Beethoven, Brahms,
and César Franck. Among the most important of these are six
published in November, 1781, as opus 2. In Köchel’s Index they bear
the numbers 376, 296, 377, 378, 379, and 380. The greatest of them
is that in C major, K. 296, with its serious and rich opening adagio, its
first allegro in Mozart’s favorite G minor, and the beautiful variations
forming the last movement. Four more sonatas, of equal musical
value, were published respectively in 1784, 1785, 1787, and 1788.
VII
Looking back over the eighteenth century one cannot but be
impressed by the independent growth of violin music. The Italians
contributed far more than all the other nationalities to this steady
growth, partly because of their native love for melody and for sheer,
simple beauty of sound. The intellectual broadening of forms, the
intensifying of emotional expressiveness by means of rich and
poignant harmonies, concerned them far less than the perfecting of a
suave and wholly beautiful style which might give to the most singing
of all instruments a chance to reveal its precious and almost unique
qualities. This accounts for the calm, classic beauty of their music,
which especially in the case of Corelli and Tartini does not suffer by
changes that have since come in style and the technique of
structure.
Perhaps only in the case of Chopin can one point to such a pure and
in a sense isolated ideal in the development of music for a single
instrument, unless the organ works of Bach offer another exception.
And already in the course of the eighteenth century one finds here
and there violin music that has more than a special significance. The
sonatas for unaccompanied violin by Bach must be regarded first as
music, then as music for the violin. The style in which they were
written is not a style which has grown out of the nature of the
instrument. They have not served and perhaps cannot serve as a
model for perfect adaptation of means to an end. Bach himself was
willing to regard the ideas in them as fit for expression through other
instruments. But the works of Corelli, Tartini, Nardini and Viotti are
works which no other instrument than that for which they were
written may pretend to present. And so beautiful is the line of melody
in them, so warm the tones which they call upon, that there is
scarcely need of even the harmonies of the figured bass to make
them complete.
[50] See ‘W. A. Mozart,’ by T. de Wyzewa and G. de St. Foix, Paris, 1912.
Appendix II, Vol. II, p. 428.
CHAPTER XIII
VIOLIN MUSIC IN THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY
The perfection of the bow and of the classical technique—The
French school: Kreutzer, Rode, and Baillot—Paganini: his
predecessors, his life and fame, his playing, and his compositions
—Ludwig Spohr: his style and his compositions; his pupils—
Viennese violinists: Franz Clement, Mayseder, Boehm, Ernst and
others—The Belgian school: De Bériot and Vieuxtemps—Other
violinist composers: Wieniawski, Molique, Joachim, Sarasate, Ole
Bull; music of the violinist-composers in general—Violin music of
the great masters.
The art of violin music in the nineteenth century had its head in
Paris. Few violinists with the exception of Paganini developed their
powers without the model set them by the great French violinists at
the beginning of the century. Most of them owed more than can be
determined to the influence of Viotti. Even Spohr, who with more or
less controversial spirit, wrote of the French violinists as old-
fashioned, modelled himself pretty closely upon Rode; and therefore
even Spohr is but a descendant of the old classical Italian school.
I
Something may now be said of these men, whose activities have
without exception the glaring background of the horrors of the
French Revolution. Though Kreutzer was of German descent, he
was born in Versailles (1766) and spent the greater part of his life in
and about Paris, intimately associated with French styles and
institutions. Apart from early lessons received from his father, he
seems to have been for a time under the care of Anton Stamitz, son
of Johann Stamitz. At the Chapelle du Roi, to which organization he
obtained admittance through the influence of Marie Antoinette, he
had the occasion of hearing Viotti. The great Italian influenced him
no less than he influenced his young contemporaries in Paris.
Concerning his activities as a composer of operas little need be said,
though one or two of his ballets, especially Paul et Virginie and Le
Carnaval de Venise, held the stage for some years. As a player he
ranks among the most famous of the era. His duets with Rode
roused the public to great enthusiasm. In 1798 he was in Vienna in
the suite of General Bernadotte, and here made the acquaintance of
Beethoven. Subsequently Beethoven dedicated the sonata for violin
and piano (opus 47) to Kreutzer.