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One of them is located at the Strahow and the other at the Pardubitz Museum. However, the simple songs fixed in notes can be performed differently after the instruction in the preface to »Marien- musik« and after that also our song was reworked. Joh. Dismas Zelenka, one of the most outstanding composers of our Baroque era, was born in southern Bohemia in Lounowitz. After finishing his studies in Prague and after his work in the chapel of Count Hartwig in Prague, he took the place of a court composer at the court of King of Saxony, at whose expense he undertook a study trip to Venice. In addition to his numerous spiritual, symphonic and opera compositions, he wrote the interesting oratorio »Jesus am Kalvarienberg«, which is performed today. Anonymus des Labaundrucks from 1718 carries this designation because the composer could not be determined, although he had his work printed in Prague. This print is located in the library of the Krum wall Minorites, where the title page with the author's name is missing, The anonymous lute player from Melnik, discovered in the archive of the Melnik-- Chorregent Seb. Böhm, is the only one so far, tells proof of an exact transcription of a lute tabulature, whether- probably the lute was one of the most popular instruments during this time. W. G. Jakob was baptized with the name Wenceslas and received the name Gunther when he entered the Benedictine monastery in Prague's Old Town. He was an extremely fertile and appreciated composer, but his works were soon forgotten and destroyed as a result of the change in taste, so that they are now among the true rarities. Our composition was acquired by the Braunau Benedictines. Joh. Ant. Koželuh worked as a teacher first in his birthplace in Welwarn and afterwards he became Kapellmeister of the St. Veitdoms in Prague. His compositions certainly belong with their mo- delicate leitmotifs to the youth of the sound poet, because later romantic motifs appear with him already. The important composer Fr. In his composition Tuma shows an unusual way of setting the Loretan litany. »The Crown of the Twelve Stars of the Virgin Mary« by the highly popular sound poet Fr. Xav. Brixi from the Rococo period once sounded in the poetic milieu of the picturesque Loretto and her handwriting is preserved in the monastery archive, The concert opens and ends the well-known Loretan bells, for whose repair the »Matice loretánská« provided. E.T C.A.T.PRAG