Jan Fryček in the inventories of the Premonstratensian Monastery in Nová Říše

Abstract

The study focuses on the inventories of the musical collection of Premonstratensian Monastery in Nova Rise (Neureisch). The aim is to present the inventories stored in Morayske zemske muzeum (Moravian Land Museum) and Moravsky zemsky archiv (Moravian Land Archive) and mainly those inventories found directly in Nova Rise. The inventory could serve not only as an overview of the specific items stored in the collection at the specific time, but due to its nature, many inventories, in the course of time, served as the sorting materials and therefore allow us to understand the system and structure of a given collection even further. From the presented inventories the study chooses two of those stored in Nova Rise because unlike the rest of the inventories, these provide the most information of the evolution of the collection. The pencil-written notes give a significant amount of details about the missing compositions or wrong authorship of specific musical pieces. Although the studied inventories provide a lot of interesting data, it is only a tip of an iceberg and thus further research should be applied to all the other inventories of the musical collection.