[BAROQUE-LUTE] Lobkowicz collections, CZ
The Lobkowicz estate owns several baroque lutes and several baroque lute manuscripts or books that are on display at the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.lobkowicz.cz/en/ Are the lute books of any interest, and if so, are copies anywhere available? Likewise, are there technical drawings of any of the lutes available? It is a very interesting collection of lutes and, apparently a few lute books, (as well as a baroque guitar and at least one baroque guitar book), but there is little specific information given at the Palace exhibit, and I could find no additional information online. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Lobkowicz collections, CZ
I think Tree Editions has published them all... Rob On 7 May 2012 20:13, [1]theoj89...@aol.com wrote: The Lobkowicz estate owns several baroque lutes and several baroque lute manuscripts or books that are on display at the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague, Czech Republic. [2]http://www.lobkowicz.cz/en/ Are the lute books of any interest, and if so, are copies anywhere available? Likewise, are there technical drawings of any of the lutes available? It is a very interesting collection of lutes and, apparently a few lute books, (as well as a baroque guitar and at least one baroque guitar book), but there is little specific information given at the Palace exhibit, and I could find no additional information online. -- To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:theoj89...@aol.com 2. http://www.lobkowicz.cz/en/ 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[BAROQUE-LUTE] Lobkowicz collections, CZ
The lute manuscript on display at the Lobkowitz Museum in Prague are probably a selection, the bulk being held in another Lobkowitz castle outside of Prague. The Lobkowitz properties (12 castles) and treasures (painting, library, weapons) were confiscated by the Communist Authorities after WW_II, and the lute books were given to the Prague University Library (two are in the National Museum). They have distinctive call numbers, II.Lb.* and II.Kk.*, which many of you will recognize. After the Velvet Revolution, the confiscated properties were returned to the Lobkowitz family, the head of which, Prince William Lobkowitz (b. 1961), was born in the US and now resides in Boston. He was a son of refugeees from Czechslovakia, and grew up here, went to a private prep school and then Harvard, where he was much interested in music. His forebearer Fran Joseph Max Lobkowitz was the dedicatee of Beethoven's Third, Fifth and Sixth symphonies. Another Peince Philip patronized St. Luc. I was amused by a picture of Bill Lobkowitz in the Boston Magazine a few years ago. He really looked like a genuine preppie (sports coat and carefully creased khakis). At the time of the Velvet Revolution he was a real estate broker living here in Boston on Beacon Hill. Prince of Nothing. You can imagine the effect it have been to wake one morning to discover that he was the owner and caretaker of some 12 castles in Czechslovaka, in various states of decay. (He has never used the epithet Prince.) I meant to provide a link to an interesting recent article about Prince Lobkowicz. His family library now has 13 lute manuscripts from the 17th and 18th century, perhaps the largest private collection of such books. They were during the communist years in the University Library in Prague. The lute manuscripts contain all of the works by Jacques St. Luc (save one manuscript in Vienna) and three manuscripts purchased from Gallot and Charles Mouton when Prince Philip Lobkowitz was in Paris. A very important collection, indeed! And the gallery has nearly 450 paintings including works by Brueghel, Rubens, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Segher (who painted the portrait of Jacques de Saint-Luc), Dürer, Holbein, et al. And weapons enough to outfit an army. Quite a place. The article gives a overview of what he received, and its state of decay (alas the slides are no longer with the article): http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_prince_is_a_pauper/ AJN To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[BAROQUE-LUTE] Lobkowicz collections, CZ
The lute manuscript on display at the Lobkowitz Museum in Prague are probably a selection, the bulk being held in another Lobkowitz castle outside of Prague. The Lobkowitz properties (12 castles) and treasures (painting, library, weapons) were confiscated by the Communist Authorities after WW_II, and the lute books were given to the Prague University Library (two are in the National Museum). They have distinctive call numbers, II.Lb.* and II.Kk.*, which many of you will recognize. After the Velvet Revolution, the confiscated properties were returned to the Lobkowitz family, the head of which, Prince William Lobkowitz (b. 1961), was born in the US and now resides in Boston. He was a son of refugeees from Czechslovakia, and grew up here, went to a private prep school and then Harvard, where he was much interested in music. His forebearer Fran Joseph Max Lobkowitz was the dedicatee of Beethoven's Third, Fifth and Sixth symphonies. Another Prince Philip patronized St. Luc. I was amused by a picture of Bill Lobkowitz in the Boston Magazine a few years ago. He really looked like a genuine preppie (sports coat and carefully creased khakis). At the time of the Velvet Revolution he was a real estate broker living here in Boston on Beacon Hill. Prince of Nothing. You can imagine the effect it have been to wake one morning to discover that he was the owner and caretaker of some 12 castles in Czechslovaka, in various states of decay. (He has never used the epithet Prince.) I meant to provide a link to an interesting recent article about Prince Lobkowicz. His family library now has 13 lute manuscripts from the 17th and 18th century, perhaps the largest private collection of such books. They were during the communist years in the University Library in Prague. The lute manuscripts contain all of the works by Jacques St. Luc (save one manuscript in Vienna) and three manuscripts purchased from Gallot and Charles Mouton when Prince Philip Lobkowitz was in Paris. A very important collection, indeed! And the gallery has nearly 450 paintings including works by Brueghel, Rubens, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Segher (who painted the portrait of Jacques de Saint-Luc), Dürer, Holbein, et al. And weapons enough to outfit an army. Quite a place. The article gives a overview of what he received, and its state of decay (alas the slides are no longer with the article): http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_prince_is_a_pauper/ AJN To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
