Arti musices, Vol. 46 No. 1, 2015.
Review article
Organs and Organ Builders in the Croatian Lands from the 14th to the 16th Century
Vilena Vrbanić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1635-6784
; Odsjek za povijest hrvatske glazbe HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Building of organs in the Croatian lands, and thus the art of organ-playing, began in the second half of the 14th century, when foreign organ builders built the first instruments there. In northern Croatia these were organ builders from the area of present-day Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, and the Czech Republic. In the area of coastal Croatia, organs were mostly built by organ builders from Italy, with an emphasis on Venice. At those times, organs were generally acquired for cathedrals (Zagreb, Rab, Zadar, Šibenik, Split, Trogir, Hvar, Korčula, Dubrovnik), and less frequently for parish churches (St Mark’s in Zagreb and St Nicholas’s in Varaždin). In certain Dalmatian towns organs were represented in several churches: in the Cathedral, the Franciscan church, the Dominican church and the Dominican nuns’ church in Zadar, and in Šibenik and Hvar in the Cathedral and the Franciscan church. Finally, in Dubrovnik, organs existed in the Cathedral, the Church of St Blaise, the convent of the Poor Clares, the Dominican church and the Franciscan church, and were owned by the canons. Although these instruments are no longer in existence, archival data about them has been preserved.
Keywords
organs; organ builders; Croatian lands; 14th century; 15th century; 16th century; Zagreb; Varaždin; Krk; Rab; Zadar; Šibenik; Split; Trogir; Hvar; Korčula; Dubrovnik; cathedral; church; monastery; archival data
Hrčak ID:
143657
URI
Publication date:
30.5.2015.
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