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RESEARCH ON VAŇHAL IN CROATIA – INITIATIVES, DIRECTIONS AND OPEN QUESTIONS
DADA RUŽA
; Glazbena škola Varaždin
Sažetak
This paper is a result of a personal experience in the study of Vaňhal’s life and in
the research and performance of his works. After an introductory review of the information
on Vaňhal from Croatian and international sources (Krešimir Filić, Ladislav
Šaban, Lovro Županović, Herbert Seyfert, Paul Bryan), this paper tries to enrich the
knowledge about Vaňhal’s activities in Varaždin under the patronage of Count Ladislas Erdödy and his possible interactions with the artists who were active in Varaždin at the
same period: poet Josip Keresturi (1739–1794) and composer Leopold Ignacije Ebner
(1769–1830). A discrepancy has been noticed between the biographical data about a
large number of works of sacred music commissioned by Count Erdödy (biographer J.
G.Dlabacz) and a small number of works that have been preserved in Varaždin, with a
special view of the problem of the lost oratorio about the Jesus Christs’s Passion which
the composer, according to Dlabacz, left at the Ursuline Convent in Varaždin, where it
is nowadays not existant. In the closing section the paper presents a comparative analysis
of the 6th movement from Ebner’s oratorio “Under the Cross” (1791, preserved at
the Ursuline Convent in Varaždin where Ebner was employed), and two movements
from Vaňhal’s Stabat Mater (1782 or earlier, it remains unknown if it was preserved
at the Ursuline Convent in Varaždin and thus accessible to Ebner). In both works an
entirely identical musical material has been found. The comparison of the manuscript
of the oratorio with Vaňhal’s handwriting features shows a difference in handwriting,
along with some features common to both manuscripts. These indications, as well as
the specific orchestration of the oratorio (two viola parts), lead to the hypothesis that
the oratorio “Under the Cross“ could be Vaňhal’s lost oratorio.
At the present stage of the research, a comparative study of a larger number of
works by both composers was not possible, but it will be neccessary in order to shed
some light on the problem of the possible links between the two composers and of the
attribution of their works.
Ključne riječi
Vaňhal; Stabat Mater; Ebner; oratorio; Erdödy; Keresturi; Varaždin
Hrčak ID:
131813
URI
Datum izdavanja:
29.12.2014.
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