Luka Sorkočević : Dnevnik = Luca Sorgo : Memoriae

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<p class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color">Many a scholar of the history of the Dubrovnik Republic has taken an interest in the diplomatic activity of the nobleman Luca Sorgo/Luka Sorkočević (1734-1789), better known today as a composer of pre-classical symphonies. The focus of their interest was mainly the <em>Journal </em>written during his stay in Vienna in the second half of 1781 and throughout his journey back to his hometown at the beginning of 1782. Musicologists have particularly investigated his perception of musical life in the Austrian capital as well as his interactions with renowned composers and musicians. Nevertheless, all these particular studies have been based on a fragmentary deciphering of his notes in a manuscript filled with abbreviations and sometimes misinformation (which will be described in the introduction to this edition) and resulted in mostly amateur, imprecise and often incorrect pieces of translations, leaving the whole of the very valuable and interesting document disregarded.</p><p class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color">Within the scientific project <em>Networking through music: changes of paradigms in the ‘long 19th century’ – From Luka Sorkočević to Franjo Ks. Kuhač </em>financed by the Croatian Science Foundation, it is our intention to change this perspective. The main goal is to offer to the interested audience a complete insight into Luka’s diplomatic mission and a wide specter of events to which he participated in Vienna and in the cities he visited along the way. Transcription, translation and comments by Katja Radoš-Perković.</p>