Arti musices, Vol. 50 No. 1-2, 2019.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/ydkx2cr0w9
The Croatian Music Institute and its School in the Crucial Year 1860
Sara Ries
orcid.org/0000-0003-2506-0299
; Odsjek za povijest hrvatske glazbe HAZU, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The musical life of a certain society can be identified as a series of phenomena in a particular timeframe: in this case study, that of the Croatian Music Institute (Hrvatski glazbeni zavod, or, in German: Musikverein) in Zagreb (Agram) at the decline of Habsburg neoabsolutist reign in Croatia. The fundaments of this research were the documents written by the Board of Directors of the Croatian Music Institute, currently stored in the archives of that institution. Owing to the fact that the minutes and other notes were written in Gothic script, today widely considered out of use, no documents have been translated nor transliterated into the Latin script as yet. Therefore, the forethought of this research was based on the complete transliteration of all the documents and the translation of those written in German. The accumulated data served as the basis of the interpretation of the functioning of the Croatian Music Institute and its school at that time and its role in conditioning musical life, as well as its financial troubles which had to be dealt with according to the overall political situation in 1860s Zagreb.
Keywords
Croatian Music Institute; Musikverein; Gothic script; Acts of the Board of Directors; 1860
Hrčak ID:
234075
URI
Publication date:
6.12.2019.
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