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The 'Partie de l'Année 1720 a l'honneur L.C.J. de M. GA Kalivoda' (in F major) is part of the so-called Buenos Aires manuscript (RISM VII, p. 67: Biblioteca Nacional, Arg-BA Ms 236R, p. 120 ff.). The musicologist Paul Nettl1 has been the last known private owner of the manuscript. He had to immigrate to the United States in September 1939 together with members of his family because of his Jewish family background, after the army of Nazi-Germany had occupied Prague, the Bohemian political and cultural metropolis. Following W. Boetticher,2 the National Library in Buenos Aires acquired the ownership of the manuscript in 1941 (RISM VII, p. 68). The circumstances of the acquisition are unknown. That the manuscript is still preserved in the National Library - or somewhere else in Buenos Aires - has not been confirmed.
The manuscript, written around 17203 in different periods and hands, includes around 150 pieces in different keys for 11- and 13-courses Baroque Lute, in French tablature. Some pieces, originally written down for the 11-courses lute, have been corrected in the bass line for the use of a 13-courses instrument.
The stylistic character of the music in the first quarter and of some pieces close to the end is French: 'brise' (or 'rubato'4). The rest can be called a mixture of French brise/'rubato' with Italian cantabile, characteristic for lute music in the (Austrian) Habsburger lands (including the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Duchy of Slesia) at that time. Some of the pieces seem to be a form of simple accompaniment (realised basso continuo), but an additional manuscript (or print) with staff notation or tablature for a melody instrument and/or further instruments did not appear until now. Other compositions in the manuscript for lute solo are of high standard, without any doubt.
Only some biographical hints do exist about Georg Adalbert Kalivoda. He has not been mentioned by Ernst Gottlieb Baron in his 'Historisch-theoretische und practische Untersuchung des Instruments der Lauten' (Nürnberg 1727), which includes amongst other things more or less useful information about lutenists from European countrys, regions and cities. From Bohemia are listed Count Losy, his servant Huelse, Schlinsky, Häußler Eckstein, Dix and others. Kalivoda must have been a commoner living in Prague,5 working as horn-player and lutenist (exactly: it seems, he has written some music for the lute. If he was performing the lute, is unknown). As one of four commoners he signed a petition addressed to the government of Prague on 27th of March 1713, aiming to found a music academy (Musikalische Akademie), taking the one already existing in Wroclaw/Slesia as a pattern. Setting in Count Ludwig Joseph von Hartig (* 1685; å 17. January 1735) as director and protector of the music academy, the government followed the petition. May be, the four commoners G.A. Kalivoda, A.J. Proessl, P.F. Kreutzberger and J. Zwiny only have been lay figures for the nobility in Prague.
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9790215318441
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200362
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edited by Michael Treder
