Publication details
Apoteóza Sokola, armády a nového člověka: rané recepce Janáčkovy Sinfonietty
| Title in English | The Apotheosis of Sokol, the Army, and the “New Mankind”: Early Receptions of Janáček’s Sinfonietta |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Hudební věda |
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| Keywords | Janáček; Sinfonietta; reception of music; Janáček reception; reception studies |
| Description | The goal of this study is to describe the transformations in the reception of Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta (1926) during the composer’s lifetime (premiered in 1926 in Prague, additional performances in 1927 and 1928 in Brno) and to analyze the factors (discursive and non-discursive, spiritual and material) that shaped its reception. The specific features of the composition’s domestic reception are revealed by a comparison with foreign period reviews of the work. The Sinfonietta was “read” in Czechoslovakia primarily as a work with a nationalist-republican, military, and Sokol-like spirit. The predominant way of “reading” the Sinfonietta was determined by the event of its first performance during the 8th All-Sokol Rally (“všesokolský slet”) in 1926. From the time when it was composed until the end of the 1930s, the Sinfonietta was firmly linked to the official ideology and institutions of the First Czechoslovak Republic. |