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Baroque Music in Czech Landsguest lecture by Václav Kapsa17 February 2014vaclav.kapsa@gmail.com

What is „Czech“ music?

Bohemia + Moravia + Silesia !"ech #a$%spart o& 'absburg (ustro)'u$garia$ *mpire ce$tre Vie$$a,

Battle o$ -hite Mou$tai$ . protesta$ts must go out

composers i$ Bohemia . /erma$ speai$g people $eglecte% i$

$atio$al)orie$te% music history

baroue music i$ Bohemia0)years 3ar pest) Baroue art %evelops slo3ly

mperor !arl "# . time o& baroue culmi$atio$ . churchespalaces51st thir% o& 16th ce$tury

$dam Michna o% &tradovice . pri$te% collectio$s o& musicMass or%i$ary . Missa super “Již slunce z hvězdy vyšlo”  he Su$ hasrise$ &rom a Star, ly%ia$ mo%e . combi$atio$ o& 2 !hristmas so$gs

Mich$a ha% a great impact . compose% 3rote !"ech te8ts o$/erma$ so$gspublishe% collectio$s o& cha$ts . hym$ boossu$g eve$ to%ay i$ church

"'clav !arel (olan )ovensk* collecte% a hym$ boo !apella9egia Musicalis 1:;

huge volume so$gs 3ith bass a$% 3ith i$trume$tal parts . i$% o&ca$tatas

<Maria pole vznešené= Mary thou lo&ty Fiel%, !rom+,- . site o& archbishoph o& >lomouc . huge collectio$ o&musical sources(einrich #gnaz Bi/erse$t music &rom Sal"burg to bishop &rom him he escape%0avel 1ose% "e2vanovsk* . virtuoso trumpet player a$% composer<?el% trumpeter= . ha% to go to 3ar to give sig$als a$% messages

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0rague o% 34th centur5uiet time $o 3arsmai$ church o& Bohemia$ la$%s . St Vitus

6icolaus 7ranz 8aver Wentzeli . compose% i$ <stilo germa$obohemico= /erma$)Bohamia$ style, Salve regi$a base% o$gregoria$ cha$t,

city &ull o& musicia$aristocrat palacesce$tre o& or%ers &or e8ample K$ights o& the !ross 3ith the 9e% Star,mo$asteriessacre% music . mai$ part mostly survive%

 1ohann 1ose% #gnaz Brentner9 !a$temus @omi$o

34:;!oro$atio$ o& Karl VA a$% his 3i&e Kristi$a &or !"ech i$g a$% uee$sple$%i% great celebratio$s i$ rague . several 3ees ?lle% 3ithmusicmusicia$s &rom abroa% gathere%Vie$$a court composer 1ohann 1oseph 7u< . opera Constanza etFortezzamai$ composer . 1an =ismas >elenka !"ech origi$ settle% i$@res%e$theatre play &or Cesuit stu%e$ts 3ith music Sub olea pacis et palma

virtutis) tribute to 'absburg &amily

Concerto Ma!or a " &rom 6 i$strume$ts,solo oboeDvioli$Dbassoo$ + ritor$ello group o& stri$gs a$% bassoco$ti$uo,

Wenzel unther 1aco/ . be$e%icti$e mo$ composerE >ertorium#aetetur omne saeculum 3ith Fre$ch hor$Fre$ch overture or prelu%eE slo3)&ast)slo3Atalia$E &ast)slo3)&ast

basoo$ . virtuoso i$strume$t

$nton-n )eichenauerE Basoo$ co$certo g mi$or!ou$t Mor"i$ . ha% a goo% orchestra i$vite% Vival%i 3ho %evote%$uatro sta%%io$i to him,solo co$certo . ritor$ello &orm

Bohuslav Mat+2 Aernohorsk*E #audetur Jesus Christus !hristia$ greeti$g, &ugueo$ly 7 compositio$s preserve%

imon Bri<i9 &u es 'eus i$ Atalia$ style

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