Josef Sawerthal's Reisebericht (1846) as a Testimony to the Conditions and Functions of Military Bands in Austria and Hungary

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Josef Sawerthal's Reisebericht (1846) as a Testimony to the Conditions and Functions of Military Bands in Austria and Hungary

Original language description

Josef Rudolf Sawerthal (1819-1893) was a bandmaster of Bohemian origin with an exceptionaly rich and cosmopolitan life. He studied at Prague Conservatory with valve brass instruments propagator Josef Kail. Subsequently he built modern brass bands gradually in Sárospaták, Temesvár, Trieste, Pula, Ciudad de Mexico and Chatham. As a twenty-five-year-old bandmaster, he made a journey to the regimental bands in Hungary and Austria, to establish a pension fund for retired military musicians. On this occassion he published in &quot;Allgemeine Wiener Musik-Zeitung&quot; a literary ambitious travel report, where he highlights to the professional qualities and working conditions of his colleagues. From today&apos;s perspective, it is an extremely valuable testimony of the artistic level and actually problems of the military bands at a time, when the later prestige of Austrian brass music with a Slavic element was growing. Among the most interesting are his views on the new types of instruments, on the arrangement for the brass bands, and on the unequal social status of musicians in different parts of the monarchy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Music, Arts and Politics: Revolutions and Restorations in Europe and Croatia. 1815-1860. On the Occasion of 200th Anniversary of Vatroslav Lisinski and 160th Anniversary of the Death of Ban Josip Jelačić

ISBN

978-953-6090-70-9

Number of pages of the result

15

Pages from-to

501-515

Number of pages of the book

940

Publisher name

Hrvatsko muzikološko društvo

Place of publication

Záhřeb

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