"...questo Bassista è buona persona..." : a short overview of sources for the Rudolfine Imperial court environment's studies

Title: "...questo Bassista è buona persona..." : a short overview of sources for the Rudolfine Imperial court environment's studies
Source document: Musicologica Brunensia. 2016, vol. 51, iss. 1, pp. 155-167
Extent
155-167
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    1212-0391 (print)
    2336-436X (online)
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Abstract(s)
The paper presents an overview of non-musical sources in Vienna archives, which can significantly contribute to enlarge our knowledge about the life of musicians under the Emperor Rudolf's II reign. The aulic accounting ledgers register various items of musicians' payments, clarifying different aspects of the Imperial musical environment. Besides the accounting ledgers, other important typologies of documents in Vienna Archives can be studied, as "Panis Briefe", numerous applications for coat-of-arms grants, testaments and repeated requests of the remaining wage payments many years after the servant's activity conclusion etc. These sources are rich in terms of biographical data and sometime contain rare autograph notes of many musicians. The author focuses her research on the study of Habsburg accounting ledgers under the Emperor Rudolf II (1576–1612) and related Rudolfine non-musical sources. After having reconstructed the Imperial Chapel and all the musical staff on the basis of the regular wage payments, other important documents conserved in Austrian and Czech archives are processing.
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