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Composers in High Baroque Prague
Vokřínek, Lukáš ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Valkoun, Jaroslav (referee)
The author analyses acting Czech and foreign composers of church, chamber and opera music in high baroque Prague and so continues in still basic work engaging Prague high baroque and classicism music culture: Hudební Praha v XVIII. věku by Otakar Kamper, Melantrich 1936. At first the author specifies Prague high baroque style, tries to create profile of this style and outlines Prague music high baroque culture. Currently he applies to rich Prague culture life. In major part he focuses on composers which formed in Prague (or 'for Prague') at a given era. In third part he compares Prague music scene a given era with Vienna's. In conclusion assesses importance of given composers for general culture picture of high baroque Prague and evaluated mentioned comparison. Overall, the author finds out that many composers were connected with Prague of the era, and appreciates the significant contribution of the monastic orders to this development. The composers were completing the Gesamtkunstwerk that the high baroque Prague was. At the same time, an important precondition for the further music development arose and its climax was the activity of W. A. Mozart in the city. A brief comparison between the music scenes in Prague and Vienna revealed that both the cities had their qualities, although the position of...
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Peace negotiations at the end of the Thirty Years' War
Vokřínek, Lukáš ; Stellner, František (advisor) ; Županič, Jan (referee)
The author analyses the Westphalian peace negotiations ending the Thirty Years War in order to find out to what extent it had influenced the parallel Swedish military campaigns. In the Czech Republic, it is the return of the broader analysis of this important historical event that leaded to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. In recent years had not been given enough attention to these events, although abroad (typically in Germany) the research continues with greater intensity. The structure of the text is following. At first the author pursues the main development features of the Thirty Years War and subsequently recapitulates the way to the Westphalian peace talks since the first proposals for a final settlement of the constantly prolonging conflict after the start of diplomatic activity at the congress in the Westphalian city of Münster and Osnabrück in the (first) half of the 1640s. Then discusses the basic characteristics of the congress, among others also key delegations and their significant (or just interesting) members participating in the negotiations. Thereafter, the text continues to its core section, consisting of two parts. The first of them is about the progress of the peace negotiations on the basis of analysis of each of the main discussing issues in relation to the conflict in the...
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Composers in High Baroque Prague
Vokřínek, Lukáš ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Valkoun, Jaroslav (referee)
The author analyses acting Czech and foreign composers of church, chamber and opera music in high baroque Prague and so continues in still basic work engaging Prague high baroque and classicism music culture: Hudební Praha v XVIII. věku by Otakar Kamper, Melantrich 1936. At first the author specifies Prague high baroque style, tries to create profile of this style and outlines Prague music high baroque culture. Currently he applies to rich Prague culture life. In major part he focuses on composers which formed in Prague (or 'for Prague') at a given era. In third part he compares Prague music scene a given era with Vienna's. In conclusion assesses importance of given composers for general culture picture of high baroque Prague and evaluated mentioned comparison. Overall, the author finds out that many composers were connected with Prague of the era, and appreciates the significant contribution of the monastic orders to this development. The composers were completing the Gesamtkunstwerk that the high baroque Prague was. At the same time, an important precondition for the further music development arose and its climax was the activity of W. A. Mozart in the city. A brief comparison between the music scenes in Prague and Vienna revealed that both the cities had their qualities, although the position of...
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