Review article

https://doi.org/10.21857/ygjwrcj07y

Augustin Kažotić, the Bishop of Zagreb, Sacred Music and Liturgical Singing

Stanislav Tuksar ; Muzička akademija Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The blessed Augustin Kažotić (Agostino Gazotich, Casotti, Gazzotti), a Dominican monk from Trogir in central Dalmatia, is very probably the most important personality of the musical Middle Ages in northern Croatia. His musical activities covered three areas: as a reformer of church singing, as an organizer of an innovative rite and probably as a composer. Functioning as the Bishop of Zagreb from 1301 until 1322 (after 1318 named Bishop of Lucera in southern Italy) he probably reformed church singing in the Zagreb Cathedral through teaching and performing; the innovative rite he introduced consisted of a new arrangement and way of bringing sung numbers into liturgical ‘dramaturgy’, as well as introducing some innovations in the repertory; and he might have been the as yet unconfirmed author of several compositions printed much later in such collections of church compositions as Cithara octochorda (first edition: Vienna 1701; further editions: Vienna 1723 and Zagreb 1757), and/or Cantuale processionum (Zagreb, 1751).

Keywords

Augustin Kažotić; sacral music; Croatian liturgical singing; Zagreb cathedral; Paris; polyphony; »Zagreb rite«

Hrčak ID:

234063

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/234063

Publication date:

6.12.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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