Alcohol and the Accounts of the Domain: the Czech Lands until the Hussite Revolution by Jan Škvrňák, Michael Škvrňák

“…The paper focuses on the relationship of Czech and Moravian nobility to alcohol according to financial sources until the beginning of the Hussite Revolution. …”
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Die von Questenbergschen Musikern aufgeführten Oratorien in Mähren in der 1. Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts by Jana Perutková

“…It is somewhat remarkable that count Questenberg assigned the translations of librettos, mainly of sepolcri, into Czech. The count respected the fact that Jaroměřice was mostly Czech speaking town; he made an effort to mediate some of the dramatic music productions to his villeins in the language they commonly used. …”
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Who owns the land, owns the country? Land Tenure and Geographic Distribution of the Aristocratic Lord-Lieutenants’ in Dualist-Era Hungary by Judit Pál

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K výzkumu výměny hudebnin mezi hrabětem z Questenbergu a jeho aristokratickými přáteli by Jana Perutková

“…Productions of numerous musical dramas, especially by František Antonín Míča in Brno and Olomouc, were also very significant for the dissemination of music staged by Count Questenberg. -- Some Míča's works were owned by Johann Matthias Thurn and Vallsassiny, the Olomouc canon and provost of the Brno chapter, and are stored in the inventory of Collalt's Brtnice, which also contains compositions by Questenberg's second home composer, Carl Müller. -- Questenberg sources reveal rather little of his specific contacts and exchanges of sheet music with the nobles who had their seats in Moravia. The same applies to Czech and Moravian members of the ecclesiastic aristocracy. …”
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