Musicologica Olomucensia

One of the research tasks of the renewed department of musicology will be continuing the research of musical culture in Olomouc as the musical centre of Central and North Moravia. The aim of this research will be the description of processes that prove the formation, mixing and interchanging of the historical models of musical culture and their influence on the Olomouc region. In the realization of such a project, we cannot omit the valuable methodological stimulations of the department´s founder Prof. Robert Smetana (1904-1988). He emphasized the research of extra-musical conditions, the connection between music and its audience, and means of overcoming the limits and Olomouc´s musical culture. Smetana´s desire to reconstruct the picture of Olomouc as a specific centre of musical events requires, among others, to pay attention to musical activities of the German part of the Olomouc population (two-thirds of Olomouc´s population was German until 1918). Therefore we appreciate the possibility of research cooperation with Sudetendeutsches Musikinstitut in Regensburg. This research will focus on themes that have been omitted until recently because the music historiographists in Olomouc concentrated their attention above all on the development of Czech musical culture.