Hello Peter, The Lobkowicz manuscripts are kept in the castle Nelahozeves (30 min from Prague) under the same call numbers (as previously kept in Prague). (Nelahozeves is the native village of Antonin Dvorak; these days the village has 1375 inhabitants). Generally the manuscripts are accessible (I inspected the Mouton manuscript in May 2008), but I had the feeling that the accessibility depends on somewhat unpredictable conditions. (I can provide you more precise information, if you want.)
http://www.nelahozeves.cz/index.php?nid=1524&lid=EN&oid=1022556 Best Regards Petr Tuma -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Ness [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 2:01 PM To: Peter Király; baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Lobkowicz tablatures Hello Peter, I posted this a while back. With a link to a recent article on Prince Lobkowitz. As far as I know, it is public knowledge that all the Lobkowitz books (65,000 volumes) and other property (art work, weapons, musical instruments, etc.) were returned to the family during the Velvet Revolution. The manuscripts are in a special warehouse and as far as I know the call numbers are the same. The warehouse is outside Prague. The call numbers seem to have been the original ones used when the manuscripts were in Roudnice (Raudnitz). See Wolf, Handbuch, II,. 105. I find it amusing how this Boston real estate broker woke up one morning to discover he owned and was responsible for the upkeep of a dozen crumbling castles in Bohemia.<g> And some Breugals, Canalettos and so forth (see the slide show with that article--click on the lower right corner). Best regards, Arthur. =====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:51 PM Subject: The Pauper Prince | I'm always somewhat amused by the travails of Bill Lobkowitz, a Boston | real estate agent, and a third-generation American whose family fled the | Communists, settling penniless in a small town south of Boston. He's a | genuine preppy (Milton Academy, Harvard College). I've seen earlier | pictures of him, and he looked | like a college quarterback with tweed sports coat, white shirt and tie, | and khaki trousers, carefully starched and pressed.. | | One day about 15 years ago, he woke up in his tiny apartment on Beacon | Hill, and discovered that as the | current Prince Lobkowitz he had become the owner of hundreds of | master paintings (Canalettos, Velasquez, Veronese, at least | two Brueghels), several lutes, incl. two Malers, a winery, a brewery, | enough old weapons to start an army, | and half a dozen deteriorating castles in Bohemia, including the famous | family seat at Roudnice with 250 rooms. (Click through the pictures. The | lute and weapons are at the end of the slide show.) | | http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_prince_is_a_pauper/ | | Lobkowicz is famous name to us, because one of his forbearers Philippe | de Lobkowicz was responsible for gathering together the some two dozen | baroque lute and guitar manuscripts with hundreds of pieces by St. Luc | (Philippe's teacher?), Charles Mouton (autograph), Gallot (purchased at | Gallot's house in Paris), | Gautier et al. The Communist authorities confiscated everything and the | Lobkowitz music | collection was deposited for many years in the University Library in | Prague. After the Velvet Revolution, all were returned to the current | Prince Lobkowicz "of Boston."<g> They, and the other 65,000 volumes in the | family's rare-book | library, are now stored in a special warehouse (iirc) near Prague. | | I guess he probably now owns the largest private library of original | 17th-century lute and music. And a real mess in repairing those crumbling | castles. He could probably come up with the funds by selling one of his | Canalettos or Brueghels, each of which would fetch millions. But it's | against Czech law to sell art work outside of the Republic. So he's | activated the brewery and winery, and has started a museum. And shows up | at Starbucks openings in Prague to make business connections.<g> | | His responsibilities must be enormous. | And quite a burden. I wonder if he knows how famous are those books of | lute and guitar music. Didn't someone on this list use pieces from them | at a wedding recently? | =====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== | =====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== This week's free download from Classical Music Library is Berlioz's Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini," performed by the Orchestre National de Montpellier; Lionel Arnaud, conductor. . To download, click on the CML link here http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ My Web Page: Scores http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/arthurjnesslutescores/ Other Matters: http://mysite.verizon.net/arthurjness/ http://mysite.verizon.net/vzepq31c/musexx/ =================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Király" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 3:49 AM Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Lobkowicz tablatures | Dear collected whisom, | | does anyone of you know the present shelf numbers of the Lobkowicz | tablatures, which were formerly kept at Praha Narodni / Universitni | Knihovna. I mean the tablatures, which had the signatures: II. kk. | 49, II. kk. 51, etc. | | Many thanks in advance: Peter Kiraly | | | | | To get on or off this list see list information at | http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html | __________ Informace od ESET NOD32 Antivirus, verze databaze 3670 (20081208) __________ Tuto zpravu proveril ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.cz __________ Informace od ESET NOD32 Antivirus, verze databaze 3670 (20081208) __________ Tuto zpravu proveril ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.cz
