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Involuntary Hero. Otakar Ostrčil and his Biographer Zdeněk Nejedlý
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SYSNO ASEP 0534115 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Involuntary Hero. Otakar Ostrčil and his Biographer Zdeněk Nejedlý Author(s) Kratochvílová, Markéta (UDU-I) ORCID, SAI, RID Number of authors 1 Source Title Journal of Musicological Research. - : Taylor & Francis - ISSN 0141-1896
Roč. 38, 3-4 (2019), s. 253-265Number of pages 13 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords Otakar Ostrčil ; Zdeněk Nejedlý ; musical biography ; myth ; ideology ; narrative Subject RIV AL - Art, Architecture, Cultural Heritage OECD category Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy) Method of publishing Limited access Institutional support UDU-I - RVO:68378033 UT WOS 000481270900001 EID SCOPUS 85070806661 DOI 10.1080/01411896.2019.1649576 Annotation The principal biographer of the Czech composer and conductor Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935) was Zdeněk Nejedlý (1878–1962), an influential musicologist and a politician who held many state offices after World War II, including serving as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the position of Minister of Culture and Education. Two trends in Nejedlý’s writing about Ostrčil can be observed. The first one, summarized in Nejedlý’s book on Ostrčil, focused on the composer’s place in the development of Czech music as an heir of Smetana. The second, formulated in numerous articles and gaining strength after Ostrčil’s death, pointed out connections between the composer’s work and a communist or socialist worldview. In both cases, Nejedlý was creating links between purely musical aspects of Ostrčil’s music and more general issues: for example, Nejedlý saw Ostrčil’s last opera, Johnny’s Kingdom (1934), as a model for the future structure of society. The relation between these two viewpoints presents a striking case of a biographer using his subject as a vehicle for his own ideas. Workplace Institute of Art History Contact Veronika Jungmannová, jungmannova@udu.cas.cz, Tel.: 221 183 506 ; Markéta Kratochvílová, kratochvilova@udu.cas.cz, Tel.: 220 303 939 Year of Publishing 2021 Electronic address https://doi.org/10.1080/01411896.2019.1649576
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