Account books, names and music: Count Wenzel von Morzin?s Virtuosissima Orchestra
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/em/cas130" target="_blank" >10.1093/em/cas130</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Account books, names and music: Count Wenzel von Morzin?s Virtuosissima Orchestra
Original language description
The private Kapellen within aristocratic households represent an important facet of musical life in 18th-century Bohemia. As a case study of the phenomenon, this article examines the orchestra of Count Wenzel Morzin, who is well known through his contacts with Antonio Vivaldi. With the help of numerous, although rather fragmentary, pieces of documentary evidence is possible to trace the beginnings of the ensemble, to provide new information about Vivaldi?s engagement as Morzin?s Maestro di musica in Italia? and to gain insight into the membership of the Kapelle, as well as recover details of the salaries of the musicians in the mid-1720s. Finally, the article outlines Morzin?s contacts with composers and characterizes the repertory of the orchestra bydefining parallels between its personnel and the instrumental music written by Morzin?s house composers? and musicians Antonín Reichenauer, Christian Gottlieb Postel and František Jiránek, which is now scattered around several, mainly Ger
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Early Music
ISSN
0306-1078
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
40
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
605-620
UT code for WoS article
000316918500005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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