Bollettino dell'Istituto Storico ceco di Roma

Datum publikování: 2024

Autor: Žáčková Rossi, Michaela

Abstrakt: To the end of their Imperial service numerous musicians applied for a coat-ofarms or, generally, for a kind of ennoblement: «Musici und Trometter» Cesare Bendinelli, Hans Jacob Drexl and Dominico Cappa received the nobilitation before their departure to the court of Bavaria in 1582 while Protasio and Zuanjusepo Celotti, also trumpeters, left the court in 1592 to return in the native Udine. Other Rudolphine musicians obtained also some kind of nobilitation at various moments of their imperial careers, as we can see from the ennoblement acts and correlated documents conserved in Austrian Archives in Vienna. The applications for coat-of arms were paid by the applicants themselves by a kind of administrative payment and the application letters are very useful in terms of biographical data: they indicate frequently the family provenience of the servant, the length of his stay at the court and define also his relatives active in the Habsburg service. Now, when we have fixed from the Imperial accounting ledgers the exact period of the service for most of the Rudolphine musicians, it is possible to analyse in detail the ennoblement documentation to learn more about the Rudolphine musical entourage.

Rozsah stran: s. 77-89

Status recenzování: recenzovaný článek

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0