English Translation

In addition, a number of instrumentalists were appointed to teach the singing boys in musical and other subjects, and the archives were much less than the singers. But it was the trumpet of Monte's successor: Alexander Horolugius, who since 1603 as Kapellmeister takes over the management of court music and the maintenance of the singer's boys. Under Monte, however, some musicians were involved, whose composers also had European distribution: Jakob de Kerle, born around 1531 in Ypern, came to Prague via Rome, Augsburg, Cambrai and Cologne, where he held the post of court chaplain from 1582 until his death (January 7, 1591). His style also mediates between Dutch and Italian, between secular and spiritual manners. Jakob Regnart is one of the most famous composers of the Prague Dutch colony. Born in 1540, he entered the court chapel as a boy and became a tenorist there in 1564 and "Capellsinger-Knaben-Præceptor", i.e. music teacher for the singing boys. His further career, which leads him to become Vice Kapellmeister, is interrupted by many years of work at the Innsbrucker erzduchessliche Hof. He is one of the first masters of the German art song ("Neue entertaininge teuche Lieder"), he has also written spiritual songs, villanels and drama music, which is based on his *) The instrumental occupation of the Prague Hofkapelle is not known, but may not have deviated significantly from the other Hofmusik chapels at that time. Now we know from Michael Praetorius: "Syntagma Musicum" (1620) the occupation of the Munich Hofkapelle under Orlando di Lasso: 5 to 6 castrates soprano, 16 boys, 13 altoists, 15 tenorists and 12 bassists as well as 30 instrumentalists. With equal proportions between vocal and instrumental bodies, we can expect up to 20 instrumentalists for Prague. As instruments (except for the organ) were usually flute, bassoon, zither, luten, violin, viola, traverse violin, half bass lute and gemshorn (after a picture from the Hans-Mielich-Codex). A representation of the court chapel of Emperor Maximilian I (also an 80 years earlier) can be found on a woodcut Hans Burgkmairs in his "Triumphzug" ("Triumphig"). Here, the instrumental accompaniment is limited to a tineist and a trosauist. Jakob Handl Gallus (1550-1591) Widow and his brother from the estate were published (he died on 16 October 1599 in Prague). Carl Luyton, one of the most important musicians of Flemish descent, was born in Antwerp in 1536 and died in Prague in 1620 as an imperial court organist; since 1603 he has also worked as an official composer. He, too, enters the court chapel as a boy, becomes an imperial scholarship holder after the change of vote in 1571, travels as such to Italy and has been named as a member of the chapel since 1576.