Music production and reproduction by Valvasor’s descendants in the Slovenian territory in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century

Abstract

The article deals with the until-recently unknown descendants of the Carniolan polymath Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641–1693) that were connected one way or another to music production and reproduction in the Slovenian territory. They belonged to the last generations of the polymath’s family to live in the Slovenian territory, stemming from all three branches of Valvasor’s descendants that split in the 1770. In the mid-nineteenth century nearly all their members moved from Slovenian Styria to Graz, but each and everyone who has been documented to have engaged in music had spent at least part of their lives in the Slovenian territory. Music was the art to which the branched-out descendants of Janez Vajkard Valvasor (about 250 persons to date) have been most closely connected.