Papers by Barbora Števanka Kadlíčková
Musicologica Brunensia, 2023
This article focuses on selected details of the deep relationship between Antonín Dvořák and Leoš... more This article focuses on selected details of the deep relationship between Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček, which began during Janáček‘s studies at the Prague Organ School in 1874–1875. The paper discusses Janáček‘s detailed analyses of Antonín Dvořák‘s four symphonic poems based on the ballads by Karel Jaromír Erben, which demonstrate the creative parallels between the two composers, as well as Brno performances of the symphonic poems during Dvořák‘s lifetime and reflection in the contemporary press. The article also shows that Janáček, in analysing the symphonic poems, made use of his work on the theory of speech melody, and that he became the first theorist of Dvořák‘s work.
Musicalia, 2024
This study sets out to analyse evidence of the reception the Viennese orchestral premiere of Dvoř... more This study sets out to analyse evidence of the reception the Viennese orchestral premiere of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater given on 19 February 1888 under the baton of Hans Richter at a concert of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. The composer mentioned negative reviews of that premiere in a previously unknown letter to Alfred Littleton dated 1 April 1888, which the National Museum succeeded in purchasing in 2017 for the collection of the Antonín Dvořák Museum. The first part of the text is devoted to that letter and the problem of acquiring the composer’s correspondence, and it concludes with a critical edition of the letter. The study also devotes attention to other facts connected with the work’s orchestral premiere, such as the exchange of Czech-German polemics in the Olomouc press after the performance of the Stabat Mater in Vienna or the work’s successful performance in Budapest under the composer’s baton on 28 March 1888, shortly after the Viennese premiere.
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Papers by Barbora Števanka Kadlíčková