Josef Novotný

Josef Novotný must be treated here as a non-unique personal name attached to Central European sacred repertory rather than as a securely individuated historical biography. The name “Josef Novotný” is extremely common in Bohemian and Moravian sources of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and modern catalogues (including RISM) register numerous distinct composers, cantors, and copyists with that name, often without dates or with only local parish identifiers.