{"id":658,"date":"2020-06-17T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/New\/?page_id=658"},"modified":"2020-11-18T11:33:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T11:33:38","slug":"journal-czech-music-volume-12-abstract","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/?page_id=658","title":{"rendered":"Journal \u201cCzech Music\u201d Volume 12 (Abstract)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a id=\"top_of_page\"><\/a>Contents of this page<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"#moyzes\">Alexander Moyzes 1906-1984<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#suk\">Josef Suk: Fifty Years On<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"moyzes\"><\/a>Alexander Moyzes 1906\u2009\u2013\u20091984<br><small><em>by R.S. Hopkins<\/em><br>[Czech Music: Journal of the Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Society, Vol. 12 No. 1 (1986), pp. 7\u2009\u2013\u200911]<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Initially trained in Prague, Alexander Moyzes offered his&nbsp;<em>1st Symphony<\/em>&nbsp;of 1928 as a graduation piece. While influenced by Suk and Mahler, it nevertheless revealed a distinctive musical personality with genuine Slovak colouring. Moyzes continued to study with Nov\u00e1k, another significant influence. From the 1930s to the 1950s he composed many of his major works, including masterpieces such as the&nbsp;<em>4th<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>7th symphonies<\/em>. But with the sixties Moyzes faced a crisis in that advanced western musical influences were found difficult to accommodate by his generation of composers. He turned to neo-classicism instead, but one imbued with national sentiment. The 1970s offered a more favourable climate for Moyzes\u2019 national style, leading to an Indian summer of creation, producing his final symphonies and string quartets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25b2&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"#top_of_page\">top of page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a name=\"suk\"><\/a>Josef Suk: Fifty Years On<br><small><em>by Adrienne Simpson<\/em><br>[Czech Music: Journal of the Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Society, Vol. 12 No. 1 (1986), pp. 12\u2009\u2013\u200917]<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s favourite pupil, Josef Suk, showed his precocity, aged 18, in his&nbsp;<em>Serenade for Strings<\/em>, and in 1891 founding the Czech Quartet with fellow students. In his professional life both as composer and performer Suk let his heart rule his head, his courting of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s daughter Otilka reflected in the lovely music of&nbsp;<em>A Fairy Tale<\/em>. The&nbsp;<em>Asrael Symphony<\/em>, arguably his finest work, reflected the emotional turmoil associated with the successive deaths of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and then of his wife Otilka. The more intimate side of Suk is reflected in his piano music, much associated with his domestic life. In his later years the volume of Suk\u2019s compositions decreased markedly, largely because of his commitments to the Czech Quartet. But this did not prevent him from following up&nbsp;<em>Asrael<\/em>&nbsp;with three massive orchestral compositions,&nbsp;<em>A Summer\u2019s Tale<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Ripening<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Epilogue<\/em>. From 1922 he was a Professor of Composition at Prague Conservatoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25b2&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"#top_of_page\">top of page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contents of this page Alexander Moyzes 1906-1984 Josef Suk: Fifty Years On Alexander Moyzes 1906\u2009\u2013\u20091984by R.S. Hopkins[Czech Music: Journal of the Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Society, Vol. 12 No. 1 (1986), pp. 7\u2009\u2013\u200911] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Initially trained in Prague, Alexander Moyzes offered his&nbsp;1st Symphony&nbsp;of 1928 as a graduation piece. While influenced by Suk and Mahler, it nevertheless revealed a distinctive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/?page_id=658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journal \u201cCzech Music\u201d Volume 12 (Abstract)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-658","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}