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PERSONALITIES OF THE PIANO DEPARTMENT AT THE ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN PRAGUE SINCE THE FOUNDING OF THE SCHOOL UNTIL TODAY
Donovalová, Adéla ; KLÁNSKÝ, Ivan (advisor) ; VLASÁKOVÁ, Alena (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with personalities of the Keybord Department at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the second half of the 20th century. This work focuses on making united and systematic summary of professors at the Academy in the first decades of working at the Piano Department. Author of this paper is trying to have a complex attitude to these personalities. They were not only great teachers but also active interpreters, composers, authors of didactic works and they made revisions of the piano compositions. All the articles are in chronological order that depends on the beginning of teacher´s academic working. Chapters are also divided into three basic parts that connect people of the same generation. Part that deals with the brief history of the Academy should help readers to get the wider context. This chapter includes historical and political information that are more than important for the total meaning of the thesis. Some of these happenings had an important influence on all the spheres of life. The purpose of the thesis is to show the situation in the community of pianists in Prague after the Second World War in a well-arranged way. The work is supposed to be an integrated overview for an informed reader and should give information about lives, performances and legacy of the greatest pianists of the Academy of Performing Arts in the post-war period.
Petrof Company - the czech contribution to the evolution of the piano
Donovalová, Adéla ; Klánský, Ivan (advisor) ; Vlasáková, Alena (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with Petrof company, major piano manufacturer in Europe. The main part of this work documents historical evolution and current state of this company. In the Brief history and evolution of the piano chapter this musical instrument is the focus of attention. This part provides an overview of development of piano from its beginning up to the present. The goal of this paper work is to treatise of the Petrof company and Petrof instruments in the context of general development of the piano. The writer makes it clear that the czech contribution to the form and diffusion of the piano.

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