The place of Jan Dismas Zelenka within Prague’s sacred music scene as viewed through the inventory of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star

0523389 - EÚ 2020 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Kapsa, Václav
The place of Jan Dismas Zelenka within Prague’s sacred music scene as viewed through the inventory of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star.
Clavibus unitis. Roč. 8, č. 1 (2019), s. 91-100. ISSN 1803-7747
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA16-17615S
Keywords : Jan Dismas Zelenka * Baroque music * music inventories * music performances * Prague * the Order of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star
OECD category: Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)
Method of publishing: Open access
http://www.acecs.cz/media/cu_2019_08_01_kapsa.pdf

The music inventory of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star from ca. 1737/38 belongs to the paradigmatic sources both within research of “the musical culture of eighteenth-century Bohemia” (to cite the title of Barbara Ann Renton’s dissertation) and the exploring of rich terrain of music inventories from Czech lands started with the Jiří Fukač’s founding work about this immense source discovered by him. Paradoxically, Fukač’s edition of the Knights of the Cross inventory remains unpublished, while all subsequent studies drew from his typescript rather from the original source. What picture does the inventory provide of music culture in Prague of the time? And what place does Jan Dismas Zelenka and his compositions occupy in this context? The article aims to search for possible answers to these questions by analysing data from the column “Productio”, which has received minimum attention since Fukač’s effort.
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