Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes to the Reader
- List of Abbreviations
- Timeline of Modern Czech History
- 1 Introduction: Nationalism, Modernism, and the Social Responsibility of Art in Prague
- 2 Smetana, Hostinský, and the Aesthetic Debates of the Nineteenth Century
- 3 Legacies, Ideologies, and Responsibilities: The Polemics of the Pre-Independence Years (1900–1918)
- 4 “Archetypes Who Live, Rejoice, and Suffer”: Czech Opera in the Fin de Siècle
- 5 The Pathology of the New Society: Debates in the Early Years of the First Republic (1918–24)
- 6 Infinite Melody, Ruthless Polyphony: Czech Modernism in the Early Republic
- 7 “A Crisis of Modern Music or Audience?”: Changing Attitudes to Cultural and Stylistic Pluralism (1925–30)
- 8 “I Have Rent My Soul in Two”: Divergent Directions for Czech Opera in the Late 1920s
- 9 Heaven on Earth: Socialism, Jazz, and a New Aesthetic Focus (1930–38)
- 10 “A Sad Optimism, the Happiness of the Resigned”: Extremes of Operatic Expression in the 1930s
- 11 The Ideological Debates of Prague Within a European Context
- Appendix One Personalia
- Appendix Two Premieres and New Productions at the National Theater, 1900–1938
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix One - Personalia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes to the Reader
- List of Abbreviations
- Timeline of Modern Czech History
- 1 Introduction: Nationalism, Modernism, and the Social Responsibility of Art in Prague
- 2 Smetana, Hostinský, and the Aesthetic Debates of the Nineteenth Century
- 3 Legacies, Ideologies, and Responsibilities: The Polemics of the Pre-Independence Years (1900–1918)
- 4 “Archetypes Who Live, Rejoice, and Suffer”: Czech Opera in the Fin de Siècle
- 5 The Pathology of the New Society: Debates in the Early Years of the First Republic (1918–24)
- 6 Infinite Melody, Ruthless Polyphony: Czech Modernism in the Early Republic
- 7 “A Crisis of Modern Music or Audience?”: Changing Attitudes to Cultural and Stylistic Pluralism (1925–30)
- 8 “I Have Rent My Soul in Two”: Divergent Directions for Czech Opera in the Late 1920s
- 9 Heaven on Earth: Socialism, Jazz, and a New Aesthetic Focus (1930–38)
- 10 “A Sad Optimism, the Happiness of the Resigned”: Extremes of Operatic Expression in the 1930s
- 11 The Ideological Debates of Prague Within a European Context
- Appendix One Personalia
- Appendix Two Premieres and New Productions at the National Theater, 1900–1938
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The abbreviations throughout this appendix can be found in Notes to the Reader, p. xviii–xix.
Augusta, Václav. (1897–1939) Critic, editor of D (1919). Contributor to HR. Espoused extreme views on the de-Germanification of Czech culture, including Wagner.
Axman, Emil. (1887–1949) Composer, musicologist, and archivist. Studied with Nejedlý, Hostinský, Novák, and Ostrčil. Head of the National Museum, music department. Secretary of the Spolek pro moderní hudbu under Štěpán (1920–27). Compositional influences from Moravian folk music and WWI. Contributed to S-HL, T-LHM.
Bartoš, František. (1905–73) Composer and critic. Studied with Jirák, Křička, and Foerster. Member of the Mánes Group. Co-editor of T-LHM (1935–38, 1946–48). Late romantic and neoclassicist influences in chamber compositions, choruses, and incidental music (to plays by Vančura, Molière, Schiller, Gogol).
Bartoš, Josef. (1887–1952) Critic and musicologist. Studied with Stecker, Hostinský, and Nejedlý. Participant in almost every one of Nejedlý's “affairs.” Translated Bergson, Carrière, and Croce into Czech. Articles and books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Czech music including opera at the Prague Provisional Theater. Czech music critic of PP (1921–38), contributed to ND and PL, editor of S-HL.
Bělohlávek, Bedřich. (1902–91) Critic. Studied at the Conservatory and musicology at the University (dissertation on J. Jeremiáš). A radical, anti–establishmentarian voice in the context of 1930s criticism, with socialist leanings. Contributed to NSv, RP, PL, ČH, Čin. Librettist for Burian's Před slunce východem.
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- Opera and Ideology in PraguePolemics and Practice at the National Theater, 1900–1938, pp. 339 - 348Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2006