This study represents a partial survey of the estate of the Roman Catholic priest, musicologist, and pedagogue Dobroslav Orel (1870-1942) kept attheCzech Museum of Music. As a pioneer of research in the field of Czech Medieval and Renaissance music, beginning in the 1890s Orel documented previously…

In 2013, parchment fragments were removed from the covers of four old printed volumes from the collection of Ondřej Horník that are now in the holdings of the Czech Museum of Music. By assembling the fragments, the museum has obtained seventeen incomplete pages of a Latin gradual probably…

For several decades, the composite book AZ 38 / AK XII 17 was located in the holdings of the Czech Museum of Music in Prague. The composite book contained the discant parts from sixteen printed éditions of German provenience, and it is one of the largest books of its kind containing vocal polyphony…

Jakub Jan Ryba (1765-1815) composed over 1,400 works, but only about a third of them have been preserved down to the present. The article reports about music with Ryba’s compositions held by several departments of the National Museum. This involves ca. 640 pieces of musical material, some of…

This study offers a comprehensive overview of the “second life” of Master Jan Hus and Hussitism in the music of the Czech Lands and around the world between 1800 and 1848. The introduction covers methodological aspects of research on national musical traditions and possibilities for their…