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essential role in the promotion of the religious well-being of its subjects, and affirmed the<br />

right of the monarch to reform the church within his dominions. 18<br />

These developments form the background for Maria Theresia’s first official<br />

proclamation concerning a specifically musical issue: the so-called “ban” on trumpets and<br />

timpani in church. This decree has been the subject of considerable confusion, much of<br />

which is due to the ambiguous wording of the original documents and contradictory<br />

evidence from ecclesiastical and musical sources. The first reference to the Empress’<br />

resolution does not, in fact, originate with her, but derives from a proclamation signed by the<br />

Archbishop of Vienna, Johann Joseph Fürst Trautson (1704-57), on 24 December 1753; see<br />

Figure 1.1.<br />

Demnach Ihre Päbstl. Heiligkeit die Trompeten und Paucken alleinig für Militar Instrumenta<br />

ansehen, und durch eine Bullam solche in denen Kirchen aufzuheben befunden, solche Bullam<br />

auch Ihro Kayl. Königl. Majst. unser allergnädigsten Landesfürsten und frau frau in dero<br />

Erblanden allermildest recipiret, und deroselben gemäß in dero Hof=Kirchen und Capellen die<br />

Trompeten und Paucken bereits abgeschaffet haben; Alß wird auch allen eingangs ernannten<br />

hiemit anbefohlen, daß in keiner Kirchen, und bey keiner andacht, auch bey keiner Procession<br />

usw. die Paucken und Trompeten gehalten werden sollen. 19<br />

At this stage, then, Maria Theresia had already ordered the instruments removed from those<br />

churches under her direct control, such as the Hofkapelle, but had not extended the order to<br />

18 Della regolata divozione de’christiani was translated into German as early as 1751, and 22 editions of this<br />

translation had appeared by 1795, including eight from Viennese publishers. See E. Zlabinger, “L. A. Muratori<br />

Und Österreich,” in La Fortuna Di L. A. Muratori (Florence: Olshki, 1975), 109-42. Benedict XIV’s papal bull<br />

Annus qui explicitly cited Muratori in support of the Pope’s ban on theatrical instruments (Bullarium, iii.36).<br />

On Muratori and other reformers more generally, see Owen Chadwick, The Popes and European Revolution<br />

(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), 395-406. Leopold Mozart owned copies of Muratori’s work; see Rudolph<br />

Angermüller, “Leopold Mozarts Verlassenschaft”, Mitteilungen der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum 41<br />

(1993): 1-32.<br />

19 A-Wda, Liturgie 2, Gottesdienstordnung 1621-<strong>1781</strong>.<br />

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