Transfer, reception and reevaluation. Transylvanian authors and their compositional methods of at the beginning of the 19th century

In concordance to the political and artistic achievements, musical historiography in Transylvania presents the 19th century as the period of national awakening and the initiation of the local national school. Scholars agree over the importance of using historical facts critically and combine them with musical sources: manuscripts of the local composers. Latest research in the archives of Cluj and Sibiu reveal documents which specify the exact references between Transylvanian composers and aristocrats and the members of the Viennese Triad. Musical manuscripts, posters, librettos, contemporary newspapers or ego documents widen the field of primary and secondary sources. It is a plausible hypothesis to suggest that personal links between Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven and Transylvanian Kleinmeisters and members of the local aristocracy determined and influenced their reception. Still, it is more likely that through the cultural transfers of the theatre, works of popular, less known Viennese composers had also had an impact on the Transylvanian public and the local artists. Research of the musical manuscripts, the early works of Austrian and Bohemian composers (Philipp Caudella, Georg Ruzitska, Anton Polz, Dominik Grosspeter) settled in Transylvania but with direct links to the Habsburg musical center, present undoubtedly aspects of the transfer, reception and reevaluation of the classical style in their option of genre, species or form.