PT Journal
AU Hauptman-Fischer, E
TI Unknown Compositions by Johann Alois Lamb in Lubiaz. A Contribution to the Composer's Biography
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2015
BP 7
EP 22
VL 21
IS 1
DI 10.5507/mo.2015.001
DE Johann Alois Lamb; music collection; Lubiaz; Cistercians; Mass
AB The music manuscript collection of the Cistercians from Lubiaz, now held at the Music Department at the University of Warsaw Library, includes autographs of two heretofore unknown Masses by Johann Alois Lamb, a Czech composer active in the second half of the 18th century in Vrchlabi. These are also his earliest-dated compositions. The article presents hypotheses about the composer's early life. Based on an analysis of the manuscripts from Lubiaz signed with Lamb's name and sources referring to his life (described in a monograph by Jakub Michl), we can surmise that he spent his youth in the Cistercian monastery in Lubiaz, where he received his musical and elementary education. The article includes a discussion of all sources connected to Lamb from the Lubiaz Cistercian collection.
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