Roads “which are commonly wonderful for the musicians” – Early Modern Times Musicians’ Mobility and Migration

The Early Modern Times musicians’ migration is often examined in its positive role in music and cultural history research:1 it is mostly considered as the motor for the development of European culture and identity carried by music and musicians, deined by processes of cultural communication and cultural exchange as well as the associated cultural interactions.2 However, the fact that the mobility pertaining to the distribution of repertoire and transregional repertoire development did not generally have a positive connotation for the players in Early Modern Times is strongly evident in research in the cultural history sector of music, which – far from the biographies of outstanding musicians and virtuosos, the history of extraordinary musical institutions or the so-called “elite migration” – systematically documents the movements in the local, regional and transregional area also of anonymous composers, instrumentalists and singers.3 Mobility for most of these musicians was not a self-deter-