Beč u vrijeme Jana Křtitela Vaňhala
Vienna during the lifetime of Jan Křtitel Vaňhal

Summary/Abstract: For the research of life and creative work of an artist it is withouth doubt very usefull to reconstruct the time in which he or she lieved. The historical, political and socio-cultural frame of time can be a very important sources of knowledge about the way of life and about the influences which were active, taking into account the way of thinking and the artist’s relation towards his surroundings and people who were hiscontemporaries. So it can be supposed that an artis who lived during the 18th century stood under the influences of the artistic and socio-cultural characteristics of his time and that he used all the elements and notions that belonged to his social surrounding, even then when he succeded to overcome them by his creativity. Since the subject of this paper concerns Vienna during the lifetime of Jan Křtitel Vaňhal, the research has been done taking into account the period from 1740 to 1813, the year when Vaňhal died.It was the time of the Monarchy during the reign of the Habsburg dinasty, so the periods reigned by Maria Theresia, Joseph II., Leopold II. and Franz II.were analysed. Since Maria Theresia and the zar Joseph II. paid an important attention to music, one chapter is dedicated to the approach of Habsburg dinasty to this art. Furthe in the text Vienna is introduced as the center of the Monarchy which was inhabited by many different nationalities who had their individual characteristics. The habits and life needs by Vienna population are described as well. The whole paper gives a description of Vienna as a metropole in which music was very highly appreciated, in which there have been many places where music was played and in which different layers of the population received music, which had a strong attraction for other nations that have been under the rule of the Habsburg dinasty.

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