Arti musices, Vol. 44 No. 2, 2013.
Stručni rad
Hubert Pettan's Hemeroteque at the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb
Vilena Vrbanić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1635-6784
; Odsjek za povijest hrvatske glazbe HAZU, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
A smaller part of the legacy of Hubert Pettan, the Croatian music writer, composer and lawyer, is preserved at the Croatian Music Institute. It is a hemerotheque, a collection of newspaper clippings that Pettan gathered, cut out and pasted into notebooks. The material is stored in three archival boxes, containing 17 notebooks and covering a wide time-frame, from 1931 to 1960, but in actuality containing articles from 1924 to 1960. A total of 2495 pages can be counted, due to meticulous pagination. Notebooks I-VII encompass the period from 1924 to 1954. Their front pages are marked with the date or the period that they cover. The remaining 10 notebooks (VIII-XVII) are structured thematically (Art; Science / Languages, Education, History, Geography, Natural Sciences; Zagreb; Miscellaneous) and cover the period from 1955 to 1960. The majority of articles have been cut out from Jutarnji list and Vjesnik, followed by Hrvatski dnevnik, Hrvatski narod, Narodni list, Nova Hrvatska, Novi list, Novosti, Riječki list, Spremnost, Školske novine and Večernji vjesnik. In the fourth archival box, separated newspaper supplements from 1955 and 1956 are preserved, as well as particular articles from 1976 and 1977.
Regarding their content, among the reports and announcements of musical events, the most numerous relate to performances of operas, operettas and ballets. In addition to articles about music, articles about theatre, literature, history, film, photography, painting,
culture, politics and medicine can also be found. The newspaper articles from the Pettan collection at the Croatian Music Institute are documents of their time, but they also reveal the personality of their collector as a systematic, persistent and consistent person of wide interests. Newspapers for Pettan were not just "fleeting" and "consumer" substance that one reads and then throws away. In them, he found information, new insights, advice and entertainment. By collecting them, he attempted to document the time and society in which he lived, because he apparently believed this was his way of making a contribution. As a matter of fact, he made his own, rather small manual from various areas that interested him. By collecting newspaper articles, he expanded his horizons, which certainly brought him satisfaction, fulfilment, but also detachment from his professional activities.
Ključne riječi
Hubert Pettan; legacy; hemerotheque; Croatian Music Institute; Zagreb
Hrčak ID:
116836
URI
Datum izdavanja:
11.11.2013.
Posjeta: 1.468 *