PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Biba, Otto
TI  - On the History of Sacred Music and Musicians in Moravia
DP  - 2011 Dec 11
TA  - Musicologica Olomucensia
PG  - 31--38
VI  - 14
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/mo.2011.008
IS  - 27879186
AB  - This text points to serious issues in the history of sacred music in Moravia, the source being the archives of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna:Three instruments (organ table, organ positive and viola) from the parish church in Kvasice: Organ table made by Franz Harbicha (Brno) five voices positive organ from the 18th century, viola Mensur large (in the tradition of tenor violin), blank, from late 17th or the 18th century.Activities of earlier singers and organists in Brno Cathedral, Philipp Opatřil since 1816 in Vienna.Letter to the Director of Olomouc Cathedral's choir, Joseph Nešvera (1842-1914), to Ludwig Bösendorfer piano manufacturers (1835-1919), in which, inter alia, he announce the performance of his Mass in Vienna, dedicated to Archduke Eugene.Biography of the composer from Rajhrad monastery, Joseph P. Maurus Haberhauer OSB (1746-1799), by the local abbot Augustine P. Koch OSB in 1826 sent to the Society of the Friends of Music in Vienna.Pastorale for Strings and Organ from the year 1830 by the Olomouc Director of the Cathedral's choir Albertini Anton Thomas (about 1660-1735), and the Czech composer Josef Brentner (1689-1742).