Title: Essays on Czech music /
Authors: Fischmann, Zdenka E.
Date: 2002
Publisher: East European Monographs ;
Physical description: 187 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Music in the Life of Czechs -- A Spanish Maestro with Bohemian Roots -- Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek's Poetic Piano Pieces -- The First Czech Opera: Frantisek Skroup's Dratenik (The Tinker) -- Smetana and Pivoda -- The Smetana Centennial -- Gustav Mahler and Bohemia -- Masaryk and Music -- Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940) -- With Extinguished Strength and Heart in the Dust as a Tree That Has Been Uprooted ... A Study of Janacek's Creativity -- The Vixen Bystrouska and her Champions -- The Max Brod Centennial -- Music in Terezin 1941-45 -- Jewish Musicians with Roots in Czechoslovakia -- Some Jewish Musicians from Czechoslovakia -- Oscar Morawetz - Humanitarian Composer -- Rafael Kubelik -- Czech Music in Texas.
Subject headings (LCSH): Music--Czech Republic--History and criticism.; Music--Czechoslovakia--History and criticism; Musicians--Czech Republic.