Dommusikarchiv Sbg.: Thematic Catalog

1. Dommusikarchiv Salzburg (A-Sd, Series A): Thematic Catalog of the Musical Sources 2. The series of signatures A of the holdings of the Salzburg Dommusikarchiv, held in the Archiv der Erzdiözese Salzburg, comprises mainly manuscript parts used by the Salzburg court-chapel at Salzburg Cathedral between the late 17th century and the beginning of the 19th century, when the court-chapel was dissolved. These are of particular interest, because, alongside authentic sources to sacred works by W. A. Mozart, L. Mozart, H. I F. Biber and J. M. Haydn they include compositions by many unknown Salzburg composers, which, for lack of cataloging, have not been accessible to researchers. During research it turned out that the hitherto unsought Stadtpfarrmusikanten (musicians of the city parish) and the Thurner were other groups of professional musicians, that, apart from the court-chapel, had been performing at Salzburg Cathedral. Among their repertory many compositions with German texts have been preserved, which give an insight into the music performed at parish churches after Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus Collored had implemented his reforms of sacred music. Between 1807 and 1841 music at Salzburg Cathedral was carried on by the Dommusik (Cathedral music) and the Stadtpfarrmusikanten. The notion, that the political circumstances of the early 19th century hat caused a complete cultural decline in the city of Salzburg as well, has caused musicologists to neglect the holdings stemming from this period completely. However, among them early sources of the works of Johann Michael and Joseph Haydn, Franz Xaver Gruber and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and numerous other, up to now unheeded composers are to be found. Moreover, this repertory documents the transition between a mostly courtly minted music practice and one carried by urban middle classes, which was reflected not only in secular, but also in sacred music. The cataloging of the series A for Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) was carried out by the Salzburg RISM Group formed exclusively to achieve this aim. The presented catalog is a revised extraction from the RISM-AII-database. With this catalog a volume about music history at Salzburg Cathedral between the end of the 17th and the middle of the 19th century is going to be published, which documents numerous findings concerning liturgy, music history, musicians, history and transmission of the holdings, papers and copyists and aspects of performance practice.

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