RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Hasalík, Radek
T1 Vilemína Nerudová. A Genealogical Study
JF Musicologica Olomucensia
YR 2024
VO 36
IS 1
SP 119
OP 127
DO 10.5507/mo.2024.005
UL https://musicologica.upol.cz/artkey/mus-202401-0005.php
AB In an interview for Cassell's Family Magazine from 1894, Lady Hallé (born as Vilemína Nerudová) declared that she was an offspring of Johann Baptist Georg Neruda, a court musician in Dresden. Johann Baptist Georg Neruda's older son, then, should be a grandfather of Vilemína's father Josef Neruda. Research in registries brought a few valuable findings: data from the birth, wedding and death registers partly confirm Lady Hallé's words, however, a birth register of Vilemína's grandfather Johann Neruda was not found. Johann Neruda's wedding register confirms that Johann Neruda was a cottager from Mohelno and the birth registers of his children mostly indicate that he worked as a miller. Still, none of the registers available mentions the names of Johann Neruda's parents, Thus, the answer as to how a court musician's son from Dresden could become a cottager from Mohelno cannot be provided.