The Greatest of the Silesians – 500th Anniversary of the Death of Thomas Stoltzer

The lecture by Vladimír Maňas and Kateřina Maňáková will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Thomas Stoltzer (c. 1480 to 1526), ​​a Silesian great of Renaissance polyphony and bandmaster of King Louis Jagiellonian. The three musical settings of Thomas Stoltzer's Mass Ordinary have been preserved in the Brno collections from the Church of St. James. The lecture will be followed by a joint music workshop: 5:30 p.m.–6:45 p.m. A music workshop focused on explaining the basics of period notation with the singing of selected parts of the mass. The program is realized in cooperation with JAMU and MU.