Jiří /Juraj Družecký (1745 − 1819) a jeho opera Mechmet (Georg Druschetzky, Giorgio Druzechi)
Jiří /Juraj Družecký (1745−1819) and His Opera Mechmet (Georg Druschetzky, Giorgio Druzechi)

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the operatic oeuvre of Jiří (Juraj) Družecký (1745–1819), with particular emphasis on his opera Mechmet, which, together with another untitled opera, has survived in the form of a manuscript score. Both musical sources are currently preserved in the National Széchényi Library in Budapest. Although no records of performances of these operas have yet been identified, individual copies of instrumental and vocal parts have survived in addition to the score itself. The completeness of the materials for Mechmet suggests that the work may indeed have been performed in the past. On the basis of the surviving manuscript sources, it has been possible to analyse and partially define the composer’s signature operatic style, as well as to clarify the musical specificities and compositional techniques employed in the opera Mechmet.

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