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License: Licence agreement concerning inclusion of doctoral thesis in the Institutional Repository of the University of LeidenNot Applicable • July 6th, 2015
With the overtake of the Neapolitan government by the Austrian Habsburgs in 1707, Neapolitan works and composers began to be more widely known in the Austrian dominions of Bohemia, the Austrian Netherlands and Saxony. This becomes clear when we see the abundance of manuscripts, especially of sacred music, by composers such as Francesco Mancini and Domenico Sarro (as well as Francesco Durante and Nicola Fago) found in Belgium and in the Czech Republic.634 This ‘Habsburg music highway’ lasted at least until 1734, when Naples regained independence; in this case a direct connection between Naples and these Habsburg-influenced northern territories was at a peak just at the time when the largest part of the Neapolitan repertoire for the recorder was being either published or copied (e.g. twelve Mancini sonatas of 1724, twenty-four miscellaneous concerti of c. 1725, two concerti of 1726 and 1728 by Nicolò Fiorenza and the many undated works in the collection of Count Aloys Harrach − who, as m
