“…I value my compositions a bit more highly than the theatre directorate does…” The Frequency of Performances of Smetana’s Operas at the Provisional Theatre and Payment He Received for Them Olga Mojžíšová The opera deals with the standing of Smetana’s operas in the repertoire of the Provisional Theatre with respect to the frequency of their performances and the revenue they earned. It is based on a detailed, systematic survey of written sources and especially of Smetana’s diaries, correspondence,…
Photographs of the Descendants of Bedřich Smetana and Kateřina Smetanová, née Kolářová, in the Collection of the Bedřich Smetana Museum Jana Plecitá The article summarises the results of research so far conducted and of the expert processing of photographs in the collection of iconography at the Bedřich Smetana Museum. It deals with photographs of the descendants of Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884) from his first marriage to Kateřina Kolářová…
From the Harp of David to the Bohemian Harp: The Harp in Bohemical Literary Sources of the 16th–19th Centuries Tomáš Slavický The study focuses on the defining of the term “Bohemian harp”, and it traces the course of the long-term tradition of use of diatonic harps and hook harps in the Bohemian lands (today Czechia). Because of the lack of other sources, one must seek evidence in iconographical and literary sources. From…
Alma Rosé and Váša Příhoda from 1927 to 1936. Critical Comments on Newman’s Biography of Alma Rosé Petr Kreuz The study presents critical commentary on a biography of the Austrian violinist and Holocaust victim Alma Rosé (1906–1944) published by the Canadian musicologist Richard Newman. Alma is famous primarily for having conducted the girls’ camp orchestra at the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.…
Important Acquisitions of the Czech Museum of Music in Recent Years (I) Tereza Žůrková, Jana Plecitá, Veronika Vejvodová
Paweł Gancarczyk: Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz i muzyka Europy Środkowej XV wieku (Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz and Central European Music in the Fifteenth Century) Dagmar Štefancová
Václav Štěpán – Markéta Trávníčková: Stavovské divadlo 1824–1862. Českojazyčný repertoár. (The Estates Theatre from 1824 to 1862: Czech Language Repertoire). EDA. Elektronický divadelní archiv – Databáze divadelních inscenací (Electronic Theatrical Archive – Database of Theatrical Productions) Jitka Ludvová
Ludmila Šmídová: ...paper and lead... Sheet Music Published in 19th Century Prague and Housed in the Collection at the Music Department of the National Library of the Czech Republic Markéta Kratochvílová
