Czech music around 1900
By: [edited by] Lenka Krǔpková, Jiří Kopecký et al
Series: Studies in Czech music series -- No. 6; Studies in Czech music -- no. 6.
Publisher: Pendragon Pr
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781576473023
Subjects: History and criticism; Music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introductory remarks on the conception of this book / Lenka Křupková and Jiři Kopecký; title: Flowers in the graveyard, tombstones in the garden / Michael Beckerman; title: The "other world" of music at the turn of the century / Marta Ottlová; title: In the footsteps of tradition : the spirit of romanticism. 1892 : The international succes of Smetana's The bartered bride / Jiři Kopecký ; A rare meeting of minds in Kvapil's and Dvořak's Rusalka : the background, the artistic result, and response by the world of opera / David Beveridge ; Delayed subjective romanticism in Czech music : Novák as a romantic / Lenka Křupková ; Čapek's feminism and Janáček's femme fatale : notes on traditional opera aesthetics in Janáček's opera The Makropulos case / Lenka Křupková; title: Czech music at the heart of European music round 1900. Novák as an axial figure in Czech music / Lenka Křupková ; Novák's reception abroad / Lenka Křupková ; Josef Suk, Dvořak's favorite pupil / Zdenĕk Nouza ; Fibich's path to success in Prague's National Theater / Jiři Kopecký ; Tchaikovsky, Charpentier and the formation of Janáček's mature operatic style / John Tyrrell ; Josef Bohuslav Foerster's lyrical opera Eva and the tradition of the French drama lyrique / Jiři Kopecký ; Otakar Ostrčil and Mahler's influence in Prague / Filip Karlík ; Folk culture as an outward source of artistic inspiration : Vítěslav Novák the tourist / Lenka Křupková; title: The clash with compositional issues of European music. The concept of multi-movement structure within a single movement in the music of Vítěslav Novák / Lenka Křupková ; Heritage and new paths in the piano sonatas of Vítěslav Novák and Leoš Janáček / Lenka Křupková ; Josef Suk's Ripening and the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic / Judith Fiehler ; The consequences of conflict in the Czech musical world : Zdenek Fibich as a point of contention in Novák's polemics with Nejedlý / Lenka Křupková.