Jesuits and Prague musical culture before the Battle of White Mountain. Remarks on a mutual interaction on the example of Marian Congregation at the Clementinum College
Abstract
The paper focuses on a source, which has – so far entirely escaped the attention of musicologists. It concerns a memorial book of the Marian Congregation, which was active at the Clementinum College in the years 1574–1621.
The book is held in the National Archives in Prague, the Jesuitica collection, inv. nr. 567, call number RKP 44 (originally RKP 2109). Among the members of the congregation, there are also a few musicians from the court orchestra of Emperor Rudolf II. - Dominicus Capa, Zacharias Cruciger, Johannes Chrisostomus Kilianus, Thomas Massinus, Franciscus Mollerus, Jacobus Regnart, Sebastianus Röckhl, Andreas Salczman, Matthias de Sayve, Henricus Schmidl, Benedictus Scheuchenberger, Johann Sixt von Lerchenfels, Oswaldus Wallner, Paulus de Winde and Georgius Zigotta.
The memorial book of the Marian Congregation at the Clementinum College unveils yet other connections between the musical activities of the Jesuits and Prague culture in the period before the Battle of White Mountain.