Dopisy Morawetzovy sbírky (Hudebníci českého původu v evropských centrech na přelomu 18. a 19. století) Jana Vojtěšková The article deals with the oldest music-related documents from the Morawetz collection (most of which come from the collection of Friedrich Donebauer), which the Czech Museum of Music obtained in 2003 and 2008. Specifically, this involves letters of musicians from Bohemia who were working in…
Árie Františka Škroupa do Halévyho opery La Juive Milan Pospíšil At the Czech Museum of Music there is a manuscript of an aria composed by František Škroup as an insertion for Halévy’s opera La Juive. As the conductor of the Estates Theatre, Škroup wrote it for the first German-language performance of the opera in Prague in 1838. The aria was inserted into the…
Prosazování Smetanovy Prodané nevěsty v Paříži Kateřina Viktorová The Bartered Bride had to take a thorny path to reach the stage in Paris. Sixty years passed between the first attempts while Smetana was still living and the premiere at the Opéra-Comique. There were many people from the spheres of culture and politics involved in promoting the performing of The…
Basetové rohy Franza Doleischa v českých a svetových nástrojových zbierkach Róbert Šebesta, Daniela Kotašová A biography of Franz Doleisch, a Prague maker of woodwind instruments, summarises the facts so far known about his life. Basset horns account for more than half of the instruments he made. Preserved specimens from Czech and foreign collections are described with respect to their characteristic…
Hudební motivy v grafické výzdobě loutnových tabulatur Nicolase Valleta z let 1615–1616 Eva Paulová The National Museum – Czech Museum of Music holds an important source – a bundled collection of three printed sets of lute tablature by Nicolas Vallet, which contains parts I and II of Le Secret des Muses (1615, 1616) and the psalm collection Vingt et un pseaumes de David (1615). In our examination…
Viktor Velek: Hudební umělci mezi Ostravou a Vídní 1, 2, 3 / Tonkünstler zwischen Ostrau und Wien Dita Hradecká
Vladimír Maňas: Nicolaus Zangius: hudebník přelomu 16. a 17. století. Na stopě neznámému (Nicolaus Zangius: The Musician at the Turn of the 16th and 17th Centuries – The Life of an Unknown) Jan Baťa
