Carissimi ve středoevropském hávu aneb o čem vypovídají dochované kompozice Karla Rabovia, SJ (1619–1686)?
Carissimi in Central European attire, or what do the surviving compositions of Karel Rabovius, SJ (1619–1686) tell us?

Summary/Abstract: The article follows Emilián Trolda’s question about the creative motivation of composing members of the Jesuit order. It follows an edition published in the Fontes musicae in the Polonia series as part of a project on Jesuit musical culture in Poland and Lithuania. It illustrates Trolda’s conclusions with two compositions by the Jesuit Karel Rabovius (1619–1686), who met with great acclaim for his compositional skills and was considered the founder of the musical flowering of the St. Wenceslas Seminary in Prague. In line with the conclusions of Jiří Sehnal and other scholars, the study does not attempt to define any stylistic features inherent in Jesuit music but sees the manifestations of the Jesuit approach to composing in a creative artistry driven by a desire for the maximum functionality of the piece (O, Domine Jesu) or in the pragmatic and purposefulness adaptation of Giacomo Carissimi’s model (Surgamus, eamus, properemus).

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