Publication details
Ctirad Kohoutek: napětí mezi avantgardou a socialistickým realismem
| Title in English | Ctirad Kohoutek: The tension between avant-garde and socialist realism |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Muzikologické fórum [Forum of Musicology] |
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| Keywords | avant-garde; socialist realism; ; twelve-tone music; serialism; aleatoric music; timbre-music |
| Description | The study deals with selected composer’s creativity originated in the period of communism in Czechoslovak history. It focuses on the tension between content and the form of its expression. After his early oeuvre, Kohoutek accepted twelve-tone system in the second half of 1950s. On the contrary, in 1960 he wrote symphony Great Turn as a celebration of the so-called Winning February. In the second half of 1960s Kohoutek created compositions infused with existencial subjects (Memento 1967, Summer Night´s Panychida etc.). In the 1970s he composed works of the content in accord with so-called normalization (Festivities of the Light, Symphonic Actualities). Yet these works are composed in avant-garde compositional techniques: serialism, aleatoric music, timbre-music. In this, Kohoutek´s music distinguishes from fundamental requirements of the aesthetic theory of social realism. |