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Cäcilien-Verein in Prague Musical Life
Vídenová, Martina ; Ottlová, Marta (advisor) ; Kachlík, Jan (referee)
ANOTATION: The thesis discusses the outstanding Prague music society Cäcilien-Verein. Primarily on the basis of the so far unstudied and partially also unknown source material concerning the relevant issue that is deposited in the Prague conservatoire archive, the thesis presents a survey of establishment, organizational structure and membership background of the institu- tion. The period cultural and social context deals with the repertoire of primarily artistic concerts of the ensemble, and, in general features, also with other types of colourful social events in which the group participated. A separate chapter is devoted to the biography of the group founder and manager, Anton Apt. The final part of the thesis presents the edition of Apt's draft of manuscript statutes for the association, as well as photographs of selected valuable archival documents. Key words: concert life, Prague, 19th century, music societies, Cäcilien-Verein, Anton Apt, sources, repertoire
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G Minor, op. 33, by Antonín Dvořák - Early and Final Version
Šmídová, Ludmila ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Kachlík, Jan (referee) ; Ottlová, Marta (referee)
Ph.D. Thesis Abstract Piano Concerto in G Minor, op. 33, by Antonín Dvořák - Early and Final Version Critical Edition of the Score // Study about the Origin, the First Printing and the Performance Practice The dissertation is focused on the Concerto for Piano by Antonín Dvořák from 1876 - an outstanding composition not only in the Czech milieu but in all the European context as well - , which was a very long time condemned for its "unsuitable" piano part. The thesis summarizes all existing knowledge of the history of the origins and reception of the Dvořák's Piano Concerto, which is further verified on the basis of written contemporary sources (Dvořák's correspondence and contemporary press, sometimes yet unknown). Distorted and false pieces of information are corrected and supplemented with new findings (relating to the performances, interpreters, arrangements). Thanks to them, the author presents a new sight of the history of the reception of this composition from inception until the beginning of present century. For the first time all musical sources are examined in detail and relations between them studied (autograph with revisions between years 1876-1883, a copy of the score, which Leoš Janáček let made in 1878/9 and materials of the first printing J. Hainauer from 1883). Then author draws attention to...
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Josef Suk: Praga. Symphonic Poem Op. 26
Kovářová, Adéla ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Kachlík, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis is concerned with the symphonic poem Praga, Op. 26 composed by Josef Suk in 1904 in need to create a music image of Prague at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century. The thesis deals with the current research and literature situation and it presents Suk as a composer and a musician at the turn of the century. The crucial part of the thesis informs about circumstances of Praga's origin, its premieres, publication and reviews in newspapers at the beginning of the 20th century. It is particularly concerned with the description of the form and the analysis of Suk's composition. In following two chapters, Praga is set into a broader context. The first of them describes the city of Prague and its depiction in artworks at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century. The second contextual chapter discusses Suk's symphonic poem in the connection with the Hussite movement tradition formed at that time and with a Hussite song Kdož jste boží bojovníci (Ye Who Are God's Warriors) infiltrating into the awareness of the cultured and educated society during the 19th century.
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Otakar Šourek (1883-1956) and his Music Critical Activities
Nová, Kateřina ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Kachlík, Jan (referee)
The presented Master's thesis, titled "Otakar Šourek (1883-1956) - Music critic and writer", deals with Otakar Šourek, the author of the most extensive monograph on Antonín Dvořák to date. Šourek played a significant role in the musical life of the first Czechoslovak Republic (1918 - 1938). He worked for numerous music institutions and wrote music reviews, articles and studies for many journals and magazines, as well as books. On the basic of the description of Šourek's public work and his engagement in several music "scandals" in the first Czechoslovak Republic, the thesis strives to evaluate Šourek's position amid the musical life of the time and characterise him as a music critic. The thesis draws upon the study of source materials from Otakar Šourek's personal effects, deposited at the National Museum - Czech Museum of Music, and study of the period press. Key words: music criticism, music, music of the first half of the 20th century, the first Czechoslovak Republic, interwar period, Otakar Šourek
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Antonín Dvořák: Moravian Duets from the viewpoint of musical philology
Kachlík, Jan ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Vojtěch, Ivan (referee) ; Ottlová, Marta (referee)
The dissertation is closely related to the project of The New Complete Edition of the Works of Antonín Dvořák. It focuses on research which inevitably has to precede the editorial work on the new critical edition of all 23 Moravian duets: a thorough record of their editorial history, heuristic activity and an assessment of all relevant surviving sources. It is not intended as an introductory text to the new edition of this vocal work, as it does not deal with all issues related to a critical edition. On the contrary, it strives to elaborate a number of topics in greater detail and put them in a wider context. In this sense it aspires to become a foundation of the editorial work itself. By means of modern philological methods, the dissertation registers and assesses a close-to double amount of different editions of Moravian duets than have been registered in Burghauser's Thematic catalogue of Dvořák's work (Prague 1996). It includes a hitherto unknown copy of Sušil's collection of Moravian Folksongs of 1860, which Dvořák used as the text original in composing his work. The textual aspect of Moravian duets represents one of the focus points of this dissertation. The author of the dissertation strongly argues against the current critical edition of the Moravian duets (The Complete Edition of Antonín Dvořák's...
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Antonín Dvořák and the region of Liberec - Sources for composer's life and work
Myslivcová, Eva ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Kachlík, Jan (referee)
The goal of the submitted work is to find out and to evaluate the state of sources connected with Antonín Dvořák's personal artistic contacts as well as with reception of his artwork and his figure in the regions set in the introduction of this work and by the concept of Liberec region in general. The first chapter named "State of Research" brings along with other information also the report on discovering two copies of letters completely unknown until now in the section named "Sources". Antonín Dvořák addressed these letters to Alois Göbl to Sychrov. The next chapter is dedicated to Turnov region and to his concert in Semily. This chapter summarizes already well known information about Dvořák's visits in this region; as well as it expands our knowledge based on unpublished sources from the archive of the choir named Antonín Dvořák, and also from Museum of Český Ráj both located in Turnov. The last chapter focuses on other regions stated in the introduction; the sources based on this theme were expected to be relatively smaller after the very first look at the problem. Key words Antonín Dvořák; Alois Göbl; Otilie Dvořáková; Bohuslav Finke; Josef Kuhn; František Čepelík; Kajetán Tichý; Antonín Horáček; Choir Antonín Dvořák in Turnov; Turnov; Sychrov; Semily; Liberec/Reichenberg; Jablonec nad...
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Antonín Dvořák's songs
Malá, Sandra ; Ottlová, Marta (advisor) ; Kachlík, Jan (referee) ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (referee)
This thesis concerns the song cycles Gypsi Melodies op. 55 (1880) and Biblical Songs op. 99 (1894) by Antonín Dvořák. The main question is how the composer musically reads the text and how he represents and further develops its sense. Two musical settings of Adolf Heydukʼs poems Cigánské melodie (1859) are discussed in the first part: At first Gypsi Melodies, a cycle of fourteen songs by Karel Bendl written in 1861-62 and 1875 that also provides context for Dvořákʼs Gypsi Melodies, and then the latter song cycle by A. Dvořák. Both works are analysed in detail and compositional principles of musical setting of the sense of the text are characterized. Some paralels as well as differences are to be found not only in the two ways of setting the same texts but also in more general terms. Another topic discussed are the certain ways of representing the idea of the exotic in Bendlʼs and Dvořákʼs Gypsi Melodies. In the second part Dvořák's musical setting of the sense of words in his Biblical Songs is described and explained. The certain principles used (concerning musical developing of the atmosphere and its changes and representing the sense of some particular words) are rather similar to the compositional approach to the text in his Gypsi melodies as well as in the other songs researched (Dvořákʼs...
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Antonín Dvořák: Moravian Duets from the viewpoint of musical philology
Kachlík, Jan ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Vojtěch, Ivan (referee) ; Ottlová, Marta (referee)
The dissertation is closely related to the project of The New Complete Edition of the Works of Antonín Dvořák. It focuses on research which inevitably has to precede the editorial work on the new critical edition of all 23 Moravian duets: a thorough record of their editorial history, heuristic activity and an assessment of all relevant surviving sources. It is not intended as an introductory text to the new edition of this vocal work, as it does not deal with all issues related to a critical edition. On the contrary, it strives to elaborate a number of topics in greater detail and put them in a wider context. In this sense it aspires to become a foundation of the editorial work itself. By means of modern philological methods, the dissertation registers and assesses a close-to double amount of different editions of Moravian duets than have been registered in Burghauser's Thematic catalogue of Dvořák's work (Prague 1996). It includes a hitherto unknown copy of Sušil's collection of Moravian Folksongs of 1860, which Dvořák used as the text original in composing his work. The textual aspect of Moravian duets represents one of the focus points of this dissertation. The author of the dissertation strongly argues against the current critical edition of the Moravian duets (The Complete Edition of Antonín Dvořák's...
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Difficulties concerning adaption resulting from entry and release from prison and postpenitentiany care
Cina, Jan ; Kachlík, Jan (referee) ; Mitáš, Václav (advisor)
Diploma thesis "Difficulties concerning adaptation resulting from entry and release from prison and postpenitentiary care" in the first part deals with adaptation difficulties, which meet incoming men during entry into a prison. At the same time my work deals with description of the prison system in Czech Republic, architecture of detention facilities and hygienic conditions in these facilities. The integral part is description of the "second life" of condemned and concomitant circumstances connected with execution of punishment. The next part deals with the description of the pre-release process. In the second part I put my focus on adaptation difficulties concerning release from prison. I describe the first steps after release and difficulties which meet prisoners after release. Next is the description of the postpenitentiary situation in Czech Republic, with reflexion on present situation. These facts are supported by the description of my mentor activity in therms of program "Šance." Part of thesis is also a questionnaire inquiry.
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