Bassani – Brentner – Villicus: the Musical Repertoire of Two Manuscript Collections from the Piarist Monastery in Podolínec Cover Image

Bassani – Brentner – Villicus: hudební repertoár dvou rukopisných sborníků z piaristického kláštera v Podolínci
Bassani – Brentner – Villicus: the Musical Repertoire of Two Manuscript Collections from the Piarist Monastery in Podolínec

Author(s): Václav Kapsa
Subject(s): Music, Local History / Microhistory, 17th Century, 18th Century, History of Art
Published by: Ústav hudobnej vedy Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: baroque music; solo motet; arias; cantatas; musical sources; Jan Josef Ignác Brentner; Giovanni Battista Bassani;

Summary/Abstract: The article is concerned with two manuscripts containing anonymous solo motets and sacred arias preserved in the musical collection of the Piarist monastery in Podolínec under the shelfmarks H-669 and H-1001. In both instances only some partbooks are extant and the composers were identified only exceptionally. On the basis of his preceding research and new comparison, the present author makes the attribution of works more precise: the first collection is compiled mainly from works by J. J. I. Brentner and includes, among other things, a transcription of the printed collection Hymnodia divina op. 3 (Prag 1718/19). Three style layers included in the second collection and represented by solo motets of Italian origin (G. B. Bassani, F. A. Bonporti, Anonym), a transcription of a collection of arias by B. Villicus, and an aria (with new Latin text) by N. Piccini, provide material for reflection on the possible directions of further research into style evolution in the solo motet in central Europe in the first third of the 18th century.

  • Issue Year: 3/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 195-215
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Czech