Guitars in Karel Boromejský Dvořák’s Collection
| Pages | 167–199 |
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| DOI | 10.37520/muscz.2024.005 |
| Keywords | Karel Boromejský Dvořák, musical instrument collection of the Czech Museum of Music, guitar, plucked chordophones, Johann Georg Stauffer, Ivan Yakovlevich Krasnoshchekov, August Glaesel, Tomáš Ondřej Hulínský, Michael Weber, Gennaro Fabricatore, Johann Homolka, Jacobus de Mensis |
| Citation | KOTAŠOVÁ, Daniela. Guitars in Karel Boromejský Dvořák’s Collection. Musicalia. Journal of the Czech Museum of Music / Časopis Českého muzea hudby . Prague: National Museum, 2024, 16(1-2), 167–199. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/muscz.2024.005. ISSN 1803-7828 (Print), 2533-5634 (Online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/musicalia-journal-of-the-czech-museum-of-music-casopis-ceskeho-muzea-hudby/16-1-2/guitars-in-karel-boromejsky-dvoraks-collection |
The private musical instrument collection of the Prague violin maker, collector, and merchant Karel Boromejský Dvořák (1856–1909) is one of the most important acquisitions in the history of the collection of the National Museum – Czech Museum of Music. The previously scant biographical information about him has been supplemented by several newly discovered facts. In the context of current organological research, an evaluation has been made of seven guitars from Dvořák’s collection. Of exceptional importance in that evaluation is an instrument produced by perhaps the most famous Russian guitar maker I. Y. Krasnoshchekov. The key part of the text deals with guitars for which the makers were probably incorrectly identified. The names of the instrument makers were repeated in the scholarly literature without critical evaluation until the early 21st century. In looking for the reason for the rewriting or replacing of the labels of selected instruments, the author offers answers based on the period cultural and societal context of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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