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Count Wenzel Morzin's orchestra
Kapsa, Václav ; Černý, Jaromír (advisor) ; Perutková, Jana (referee) ; Sehnal, Jiří (referee)
The present work treats the phenomenon of court orchestras (Kapellen) in Czech lands during High Baroque, in the period delimitated by the reign of Charles VI. Its aim was not, however, to cover the theme in its totality, but to document and analyse the hitherto little-noticed Prague orchestra of Count Wenzel Morzin (1675-1737), providing material for future synthesis and offering a pendant to the existing works of this kind, which have focused mainly on Kapellen of Moravian provenience. In the history of music, Count Wenzel Morzin is known mostly owing to his contact with the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi. It was Count Morzin to whom Vivaldi has dedicated his collection Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione op. 8 containing the famous violin concertos, Le quattro stagioni. Besides, Vivaldi made a laudatory comment about Morzin's Kapelle in one of his letters. In various, mostly isolated contexts we find mentions of other musicians as well as the music of composers related to Count Morzin and his orchestra. The aim of this work was to interconnect these mutually unrelated sources and document the personal / instrumental constitution and development of the orchestra by means of archive research based primarily on sources of accounting and registration nature. The work looks at the Morzin Kapelle at...
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Music Culture of the Elisabethan Convent in Prague
Michl, Jakub ; Ottlová, Marta (advisor) ; Aschenbrenner, Vít (referee) ; Perutková, Jana (referee)
Music Culture of the Elisabethan Convent in Prague Jakub Michl Abstract The Sisters of Saint Elizabeth (Elizabethan Nuns) were a spiritual order primarily focused on administering healthcare. Therefore, music was never the main focus of the order's activities, as it often was in others, particularly educational orders. However, thanks to the uninterrupted historical continuity of the Prague convent, which was exempted from the restrictions of Joseph II's era, many sources illustrating the convent music culture were preserved, including an extensive collection of music. The dissertation aims to describe this music culture in the context of the order structure and its personal hierarchy, as part of the city of Prague and its civic institutions, and in its everyday life and characteristics such as enclosure, hospital service and recreational activities. Music in convents was always tightly bound to liturgy. In the case of the Elizabethan order, significant music production was focused on the order's main liturgical feasts such as S. Elizabeth, S. Francis of Assisi, Porciuncula, Christmas, Epiphany, Easter and also memorial services for deceased patrons of the convent. The convent cooperated with many lay musicians and composers such as F. X. Brixi, Z. V. Suchý, F. X. Labler, J. N. Bayer, among others. At the...
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Music collections of the Brothers Hospitallers in the Bohemia Lands
Freemanová, Michaela ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Sehnal, Jiří (referee) ; Perutková, Jana (referee)
The 'provincia germanica' of the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers was probably founded in 1616. In the early 1770s it covered almost the whole of Central Europe. Today's Bohemian province consists of eight monasteries (Prague, Nové Město nad Metují, Kuks, Brno, Prostějov, Valtice, Letovice and Vizovice). This book deals with their history, their music life and their surviving music collections from Prague, Nové Město nad Metují, Kuks (the Kuks collection catalogue was published independently in 1998), Prostějov, Brno and Valtice (the Letovice and Vizovice collections are not extant). They are quite a rarity: it seems that, apart from the small collections in Graz and Vienna, and the until now inaccessible Wroclaw (Breslau) collection, no other such collections survived anywhere else in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Apart from Kuks, most of the Czech and Moravian Order music collections are fragmentary. Fragmentary also are the Order documents. Even so it is possible to follow the rise and fall of the music activities of the Brothers Hospitallers, whose original and principal mission was to care for the helpless, aged and the sick. Music became integral part of the Order members' general education inside the "provincia germanica" since 1718; the musicians named in the catalogues of the Order...
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Count Wenzel Morzin's orchestra
Kapsa, Václav ; Černý, Jaromír (advisor) ; Perutková, Jana (referee) ; Sehnal, Jiří (referee)
The present work treats the phenomenon of court orchestras (Kapellen) in Czech lands during High Baroque, in the period delimitated by the reign of Charles VI. Its aim was not, however, to cover the theme in its totality, but to document and analyse the hitherto little-noticed Prague orchestra of Count Wenzel Morzin (1675-1737), providing material for future synthesis and offering a pendant to the existing works of this kind, which have focused mainly on Kapellen of Moravian provenience. In the history of music, Count Wenzel Morzin is known mostly owing to his contact with the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi. It was Count Morzin to whom Vivaldi has dedicated his collection Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione op. 8 containing the famous violin concertos, Le quattro stagioni. Besides, Vivaldi made a laudatory comment about Morzin's Kapelle in one of his letters. In various, mostly isolated contexts we find mentions of other musicians as well as the music of composers related to Count Morzin and his orchestra. The aim of this work was to interconnect these mutually unrelated sources and document the personal / instrumental constitution and development of the orchestra by means of archive research based primarily on sources of accounting and registration nature. The work looks at the Morzin Kapelle at...
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