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- Title
A new collection of viola d'amore music from late 18th-century Bohemia.
- Authors
Miller, Paul
- Abstract
In 2013 Veronika Uhlířová, identified an important manuscript of viola d'amore music in the Czech Museum of Music in Prague. This manuscript was copied around 1800, and contains 26 solo works, called 'Galanteries', for viola d'amore, by Franz Götz and his collaborator Josef Fuchs. Unknown until Uhlířová's discovery, the galanteries are an important part of an extraordinary group of pieces for viola d'amore associated with Götz, including three multi-movement duos, two nocturnes, a double concerto and a short primer, or 'fondamento'. They are of immense significance to the history of this unusual instrument, and shine a bright light on an extraordinary but short-lived virtuoso school of viola d'amore playing in Bohemia and Moravia around 1800. In this article I place the 'Galanteries' manuscript in its historical context, arguing that the discovery of this remarkable collection invites a reassessment of the history of the viola d'amore during the late Classical period, tilting the centre of gravity away from Stamitz's Mannheim towards Bohemia and Moravia. I shed new light on Götz's compositional collaborator, Josef Fuchs, about whom almost nothing is known, and on the pair's relationship with the court of Kroměříž. Finally, I analyse some of the more remarkable qualities of the galanteries themselves, both in terms of their stylistic traits and technical elements.
- Subjects
VIOLA d'amore music; MUSIC manuscripts; MUSICAL composition; COMPOSERS; STAMITZ, Carl
- Publication
Early Music, 2017, Vol 45, Issue 4, p613
- ISSN
0306-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/em/cax080