Arti musices, Vol. 44 No. 1, 2013.
Original scientific paper
Between Prague, Zagreb and Lwów: Franjo Ksaver Kuhač and his Czech Supporters
Michaela Freemanová
; Kabinet hudební ústav Akademie véd České republiky, Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract
In the 1870s, two main music factions were flourishing in Bohemia, one of them, represented by the journal Dalibor, pro-Wagnerian, pro-Lisztian, and pro-Smetanian; the second one supported the idea of national music growing out of the folklore. Its tribune became the journal Hudební listy, the editors of which were two prominent musicians, Josef Richard Rozkošný, and František Pivoda. While Pivoda and Rozkošný criticised the foreign connotations of Smetana’s music, Franjo Ksaver Kuhač, whose writings were published by Hudební listy from 1873, was more fair in his judgement of Smetana’s work than his own compatriots. Apart from his report on the first performance of the Bartered Bride in Croatia, Hudební listy published a Czech translation of his Sachliche Einleitung zur Sammlung südslavischer Volkslieder, the article Vzchopme se k dílu! (Let us rise to work!), criticising teaching young Slavonic musicians the principles of Western music, instead of supporting the development of the truly Slavonic music culture, and an analysis of his Srbsko Oro. That Kuhač’s beliefs struck the same note in his Czech fellow supporters, is testified to by Hudební listy, the Prague journal Svítozor, which printed his biography, and by the copies of letters sent by Kuhač to František Pivoda and his equally pro-folklore orientated compatriot, active in Lwów, Max Konopásek.
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Publication date:
13.6.2013.
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