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26-729: Suchdol may refer to places in the Czech Republic: Suchdol (Kutná Hora District) , a market town in the Central Bohemian Region Suchdol (Prostějov District) , a municipality and village in the Olomouc Region Suchdol (Prague) , a district of Prague Suchdol nad Lužnicí , a town in the South Bohemian Region Suchdol nad Odrou , a market town in

52-525: A few years at Kuks during the summer months. The Denzio company succeeded in attracting some of the most prominent singers in Italy to Prague, and used Antonio Vivaldi as a source of repertory and singers. Vivaldi himself visited Prague in the early 1730s as a result of his connections with the Sporck theater. Many creative operatic works were first performed in the Sporck theater, including the first opera to use

78-467: A lifelong appreciation of French literature from his travels in France. As he was still a minor at the time of his father's death, he was able to assume control of his inheritance only in 1684. This included the estates of Lysá, Konojedy , Choustníkovo Hradiště , and Malešov . It was on the estate of Choustníkovo Hradiště in northern Bohemia that he later built his own residence of Kuks . He also inherited

104-661: A seat on the Statthalterei , a committee of nobles that served as the highest local civil authority in the province of Bohemia at the time, has led to confusion in the English-language literature. Sometimes Count Sporck is referred to as the " Viceroy of Bohemia," a title that did not exist. In 1695 he founded a noted hunting society known as the Order of St. Hubertus . In 1694 the Prague physician J. F. Love confirmed

130-429: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Suchdol (Kutn%C3%A1 Hora District) The villages of Dobřeň, Malenovice, Solopysky and Vysoká are administrative parts of Suchdol. The name is derived from suchý důl , i.e. "dry valley". Suchdol is located about 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Kutná Hora and 47 km (29 mi) east of Prague . It lies in

156-812: Is located next to the castle. It was probably built around 1280. Baroque reconstruction took place in 1746–1747. There are three other churches in the villages within the municipal territory: Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Vysoká, Church of Saint Wenceslaus in Dobřeň, and Church of Saint Bartholomew in Solopysky. On Vysoká Hill is a ruin of the Chapel of Saint John the Baptist, now called "Belveder". It

182-670: Is possible that this connection led Bach to try to cultivate Count Sporck, who was passionately interested in German poetry and even employed the poet Gottfried Benjamin Hancke permanently as a member of his household. The autograph score of the "Sanctus" of the Bach's Mass in B minor contains an annotation that a copy was sent to Count Sporck in Bohemia. There is no record in the voluminous surviving correspondence of Count Sporck that this gesture

208-639: The Upper Sázava Hills . The highest point is the hill Vysoká at 471 m (1,545 ft) above sea level. The Polepka Stream originates here and flows across the municipal territory. The first written mention of Suchdol is from 1257. In 1666, it was bought by the Sporck family and merged with the Lysá estate. Before it became separate municipality in 1848, it was part of the Malešov estate. The I/2 road (the section from Prague to Kutná Hora) passes through

234-580: The Czech Republic: his introduction of the French horn into Bohemia, his foundation of the first permanent opera theater in the Bohemian lands, and a certain connection with the composer Johann Sebastian Bach that still lacks clarification. Traditions of French horn playing were introduced in Bohemia after Count Sporck brought the instrument back with him from a visit to the court of Versailles in

260-659: The Jesuit Latin School in Kutná Hora. In 1675 he began to attend lectures in philosophy and law at Charles-Ferdinand University in the Prague Clementinum . He graduated in 1678 at the age of sixteen. In 1680 he embarked on a Grand Tour of Europe that brought him to Rome , Turin , southern France , Spain , Paris , England , The Hague , and Brussels . He traveled for a second time to Paris in 1682 after returning to Bohemia in 1681. He acquired

286-863: The Moravian-Silesian Region Suchdol, a village and part of Bujanov in the South Bohemian Region Suchdol, a village and part of Křimov in the Ústí nad Labem Region Suchdol, a village and part of Kunžak in the South Bohemian Region Suchdol, a village and part of Prosenická Lhota in the Central Bohemian Region Suchdol, a village and part of Vavřinec (Blansko District) in the South Moravian Region See also [ edit ] Suchodol, Czech Republic [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

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312-562: The confiscation of his library in 1729. The Prague nobility gradually lost the interest in the Denzio productions, his company suffered serious financial reversals, and finally it collapsed in bankruptcy in 1735 with appeals to Count Sporck for assistance contemptuously dismissed. Count Sporck is known to have maintained connections with the poet Picander in Leipzig , an individual well known to J. S. Bach, who set many of his texts to music. It

338-713: The effect of arousing the suspicion of the Habsburg ecclesiastical authorities for his flirtations with Jansenist philosophy and anti-Jesuitical polemicism. In 1729, his entire collection of books was carted away for investigation on the orders of the emperor Charles VI and he himself was temporarily arrested. He was cleared of all wrongdoing in 1734 after a great deal of political maneuvering and substantial expenditure of money, but he never recovered emotionally. The last four years of his life were spent in quiet retirement. There are three aspects of musical patronage that make Count Sporck notable to music lovers both inside and outside

364-517: The family palace in Prague and a considerable sum of money. In 1686 he married the Franziska Apollonia, née von Swéerts zu Reist (1667–1726), a member of a Silesian family originally from Brussels. The marriage was a happy one. Together the couple had two daughters, Elenora Franziska (1687–1717) and Anna Katherina (1689–1754), and a son, Johann Franz Anton Joseph Adam (born 1699), who did not survive infancy. In 1718 Count Sporck adopted

390-469: The grounds of Prague Castle . There was a recognition that Prague should have a permanent theater capable of presenting the "aristocratic" entertainment of opera, and Count Sporck saw fit to encourage the efforts of the Italian impresario Antonio Maria Peruzzi in founding the Prague theater, then Antonio Denzio , who soon supplanted Peruzzi, in continuing productions. There were also operatic productions for

416-472: The healing properties of the spring that originated on the left side of the river in the southern portion of the estate of Choustníkovo Hradiště. Here was built the Kuks spa, later famous for its curative powers and the charity hospital attached to it. For the overall concept, design and execution of the building of the spa and castle of Kuks, Count Sporck commissioned the architect Giovanni Battista Alliprandi and

442-542: The husband of his daughter Anna Katherina, Franz Karl Rudolph von Swéerts zu Reist, and it was he who inherited the Sporck estates, taking the name Swéerts-Sporck. Much of Count Sporck's early adulthood was spent improving and expanding his estates and participating in public affairs. In the early 1690s he was awarded a number of prestigious imperial offices, including steward ( Kämmerer ) and Statthalter in 1690 and privy counselor ( Wirklicher Geheimer Rat ) in 1692. His title of Statthalter , which indicates merely that he held

468-516: The market town. An architectural landmark of Suchdol is the Suchdol Castle. The original Gothic fortress from the 14th century was rebuilt to the current form of a Renaissance castle in the 16th century. Baroque modifications were made in the mid-18th century. it is decorated with sgraffiti . In the second half of the 20th century, the building served as a school and library. Today it houses the municipal office. The Church of Saint Margaret

494-528: The master mason Giovanni Pietro della Torre . The complex included the Church of the Holy Trinity, built for the benefit of war veterans and retired retainers as part of a foundation that he founded. The sculptor Matthias Bernard Braun beautified the grounds of Kuks with some of his finest works. Count Sporck's intellectual interests led him to found a branch of Freemasonry in Bohemia, but they also had

520-404: The original settings and character names from the tradition of Don Juan dramatizations: the opera La pravità castigata (1730) with words by Antonio Denzio and music mainly by Antonio Caldara . Count Sporck did not provide financial support for the opera company beyond permitting the impresario to use the theater in his Prague palace free of charge, however, nor did he attend performances after

546-425: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suchdol&oldid=1173950809 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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572-532: The spring of 1681. Its cultivation spread in Bohemia until the Bohemian horn players were generally acknowledged to be the best in Europe by the 18th century. Count Sporck had long sponsored theatrical performances at Kuks and his palace in Prague, but in 1724 permitted an Italian opera company to perform in his Prague palace free of charge. The impetus for this move was the coronation of Charles VI in Prague in 1723, an event accompanied by lavish operatic productions on

598-581: Was a German-speaking literatus and patron of the arts who lived in the province of Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic . He was one of the most notable cultural and intellectual figures in central Europe in the early 18th century. Count Sporck was born the eldest of four children of Count Johann von Sporck (1595–1679) and his second wife Maria Eleonora of Fineke. His father had been born in rather humble circumstances in Westphalia , but

624-609: Was an archetypal example of this sort of favorite, first ennobled with the rank of baron in 1647, then imperial count in 1664. He was given vast amounts of land in Bohemia that Count Sporck would later inherit. Typical of the Germanized Catholic nobility in Bohemia of his day, Count Sporck considered himself ethnically German and exhibited scant interest in Czech culture. He attended school first in Heřmanův Městec, then at

650-518: Was founded by Franz Anton von Sporck and built in 1695–1697, but it was destroyed by fire after being struck by lightning in 1834. Next to the chapel is a 40 m (130 ft) high steel observation tower, which also serves as a telecommunications tower. Franz Anton von Sporck Franz Anton von Sporck, Count ( German : Franz Anton Reichsgraf von Sporck , Czech : František Antonín hrabě Špork ) (9 March 1662 in Lysá nad Labem or Heřmanův Městec – 30 March 1738 in Lysá nad Labem )

676-634: Was rewarded handsomely for distinguished military leadership in the service of the Habsburg dynasty during the Thirty Years' War . It was a habit of the Habsburg emperors to reward favorites with lands confiscated from dispossessed Protestant Bohemian nobles who refused to convert to Catholicism after the defeat of the Estates of Bohemia at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620. Count Sporck's father

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