Account books, names and music: Count Wenzel von Morzin’s Virtuosissima Orchestra

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Account books, names and music: Count Wenzel von Morzin’s Virtuosissima Orchestra.
Early Music. Roč. 40, č. 4 (2012), s. 605-620. ISSN 0306-1078
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378076
Klíčová slova: music * 18th century * aristocracy * Czech lands * Antonio Vivaldi
Kód oboru RIV: AL - Umění, architektura, kulturní dědictví
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The private Kapellen within aristocratic households represent an important facet of musical life in 18th-century Bohemia. As a case study of the phenomenon, this article examines the orchestra of Count Wenzel Morzin, who is well known through his contacts with Antonio Vivaldi. With the help of numerous, although rather fragmentary, pieces of documentary evidence is possible to trace the beginnings of the ensemble, to provide new information about Vivaldi’s engagement as Morzin’s ‘Maestro di musica in Italia’ and to gain insight into the membership of the Kapelle, as well as recover details of the salaries of the musicians in the mid-1720s. Finally, the article outlines Morzin’s contacts with composers and characterizes the repertory of the orchestra by defining parallels between its personnel and the instrumental music written by Morzin’s ‘house composers’ and musicians Antonín Reichenauer, Christian Gottlieb Postel and František Jiránek, which is now scattered around several, mainly German, music collections
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0220633