Arti musices, Vol. 43 No. 2, 2012.
Prethodno priopćenje
Letters as Music-Historiographical Sources Exemplified by the Second Volume of Kuhač's Correspondence
Vjera Katalinić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7230-7990
; Odsjek za povijest hrvatske glazbe HAZU, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Volume 2 of Franjo Ksaver Kuhač’s correspondence (HR-HDA 805, Folder 52/II in the Croatian State Archives — Hrvatski državni arhiv — in Zagreb) has been preserved within his literary legacy. It encompasses a relatively long period of five years (from January 1, 1864, to the end of 1869) in some 200 numerated and some ten unnumbered letters, written prevailingly in German; there are also 27 of them in Croatian. Kuhač wrote and sent them mostly from Osijek, some of them from Zagreb as well as from some other places that he visited on his journeys. They are addressed to his friends, family, business associates and others.
The correspondence can be classified according to the type of relation in question (private, business: both contacts with publishers of his own works or other orders of music material, information on Kuhač’s work, his statements on research, other business activities), while special attention is given to:
1) Kuhač’s attitudes towards himself and his family, and biographical details;
2) Kuhač’s interests and attitudes on the importance of his work and on research tasks (from pedagogical issues to research);
3) the organization of music life in Osijek and the towns in which he sojourned; and,
4) his understanding of the cultural policies of his time.
These letters can be placed within the context of Kuhač’s public activities (mostly based on his study My Work — Moj rad, published in 1904) and could be related to thencurrent musical, cultural and political events in Osijek and Zagreb.
Kuhač thus appears as a reliable commentator of so-called objective reality, but even more valuable are his subjective attitudes and judgements on the contemporary musicocultural life in the Croatian lands.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
96614
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Datum izdavanja:
23.11.2012.
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