Arti musices, Vol. 44 No. 2, 2013.
Original scientific paper
Emotional Celebration of Victory: A Contribution to the Knowledge on Musical Events in the Vicinity of the Border against the Turks in 1789
Vjera Katalinić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7230-7990
; Odsjek za povijest hrvatske glazbe HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
One of the first attempts to publish newspapers in Zagreb dates back to the year 1789, when the Austrian publisher Johann Trattner initiated the Kroatischer Korrespondent. Although the newspapers were intended primarily for merchants, officers and politicians, because of regular reports from the front line against the Turks, some news about music and music-making occasionally appeared as well. Such news related partly to the Military Border Region, from which Karlovac had only recently been detached. Some of these news items also concerned Zagreb. These were reports largely on church and secular celebrations organized on the occasion of various military successes: theatre performances, concerts, solemn masses, processions, and public music-making in Zagreb, Karlovac, Glina, and Požega; in addition, there were also some advertisements considering music: an announcement of an auction of musical scores and instruments in Zagreb, and another one on a subscription to an entertaining music published in Graz. The author analyses these writings, reports on the results of her investigation on musicians and works performed there, and places them into the context of that time, as well as within the general and musical events at the Military Border and in its vicinity.
Keywords
Kroatischer Korrespondent; Military Border; Karlovac; Zagreb; 1789; military music; military festivities
Hrčak ID:
116791
URI
Publication date:
11.11.2013.
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