The Music Collection of Antonín Borový (1755–1832), A Cantor from Zlatá Koruna
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023221%3A_____%2F23%3AN0000039" target="_blank" >RIV/00023221:_____/23:N0000039 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/287/article/872585" target="_blank" >https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/287/article/872585</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/fam.2022.0025" target="_blank" >10.1353/fam.2022.0025</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Music Collection of Antonín Borový (1755–1832), A Cantor from Zlatá Koruna
Original language description
The school at the South Bohemian Cistercian monastery of Zlatá Koruna was established by the last abbot of this convent in 1772. He also appointed Antonín Borový, a university educated teacher, who went on to dedicate fifty years of his life to teaching in the school. Given that a cantor's responsibilities at that time also included leading the church choir and securing the musical accompaniment for church services, Borový built up a significant music collection throughout his lifetime, of which 452 compositions have been preserved. The collection is now predominantly housed in the National Museum – the Czech Museum of Music in Prague and at the Český Krumlov branch of the State Regional Archive in Třeboň. The notes on the covers of the sheet music, which provide precise information about the performance dates for each composition, its origin and orchestration, constitute the Borový collection's greatest contribution. These notes also enable us to have some idea of the repertoire of the rural choir, the ways in which the repertoire was disseminated, and music performance practice at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Borový's documentation is unique in this regard, as reports of musical performances of Czech choirs and specific repertoire choices have only been preserved sporadically. Borový also composed about twenty of his own works, which are, however, compositionally inferior. He also maintained a school chronicle written in Czech, to which he added information about school celebrations. All the sources document musical life in the Czech countryside, in which cantors, who trained entire generations of famous musicians, played an irreplaceable role for centuries.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Fontes Artis Musicae
ISSN
0015-6191
e-ISSN
2471-156X
Volume of the periodical
69
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
297-312
UT code for WoS article
000922663700002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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