The Musical Culture of Silesia before 1742. New Context - New Perspectives

0398388 - EÚ 2014 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Kapsa, Václav
On the Way from Prague to Wrocław: Sacred Music by Early 18th-Century Prague Composers in Silesia.
The Musical Culture of Silesia before 1742. New Context - New Perspectives. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013 - (Gancarczyk, P.; Hlávková-Mráčková, L.; Pośpiech, R.), s. 267-287. Eastern European Studies in Musicology, Volume 1. ISBN 978-3-631-63414-1
Institutional support: RVO:68378076
Keywords : sacred music * Prague composers * musical sources * 17th and 18th century music * Prague cathedral * Breslau cathedral
Subject RIV: AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage

The article follows the paths of the baroque sacred music repertoire between Bohemia and Silesia on the examples of music by Prague composers surviving mostly uniquely in the collections of Silesian origin. Music composed around 1700 by musicians working in the Prague cathedral Nicolaus Franz Xaver Wentzely, Tobias Ernestus Liehre and Johann Christoph Karl Gayer is the subject of the first case study. The hypothesis about the direct link between Prague and Wroclaw cathedral music ensembles is supported by new information about musicians derived from accounts of the Wroclaw cathedral from 1699. Thereinafter, Silesian sources of music by Wenzel Gunther Jacob and vesper psalms by Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner are discussed.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0225919