SKU: PA.H07942
Czech title: L'Attraction
et la necessite.
Classical. Book, CD. With
Publication language:
French. Editio
Baerenreiter Praha
#H07942_00. Published by
Editio Baerenreiter Praha
(PA.H07942).
ISBN
9788086385273. 23 x 16 cm
inches.
Between the
1890s and World War II
the axis of Paris -
Prague was found to be
incredibly attractive.
Its attraction lay in
sharing mutual political
and social values and led
to the demand of certain
cultural and artistic
unity. The aim of this
book is to raise
questions regarding the
musical works of this
period, and discuss which
musical works show this
'affinity in choice'.
During the course of the
20th century 'cultural
polarities' started
blurring, and
paradoxically enough it
was not one of the Slav
countries, but Paris
where Czech composers
reinvented, through the
Neo-Classical style (
mainly Stravinski's)
their 'Eastern pole':
light and archaic themes,
a specific register of
folk and trivial music,
and the preference for
creative spontaneity in
compositions. Which
features in the direction
taken by Bohuslav Martinu
can be regarded as
typical of this tendency?
What were the positions
of the other Czech
composers such as Leos
Janacek, Alois Haba,
Karel Husa, Jaroslav
Jezek and others, and
artists working in the
musical, artistic or
literal fields, for
instance Arne Hosek,
Milada Souckova, Jiri
Kolar, Milan Slavicky,
Milan Kundera, within
this context? The
analysis of these
questions regarding the
whole of the 20th century
is completed with several
so far unpublished or
unknown sources.
Attraction
