{"id":2141,"date":"2022-01-20T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/?post_type=product&#038;p=2141"},"modified":"2025-12-13T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:35:27","slug":"a-tribute-to-petr-eben","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/?product=a-tribute-to-petr-eben","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to Petr Eben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong>A Tribute to Petr Eben to mark his 70th birthday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pages:<\/strong>\u00a0239, illustrated (8 plates)<\/p>\n<p>Composer and organist\u00a0<strong>Petr Eben<\/strong>\u00a0(1929\u20132007) was one of the most important figures in Czech music during the post-war period. This book was written in the last decade of his life and remains of considerable interest.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from many shorter tributes and a very full discography, the book includes major contributions by several other of the world\u2019s leading musicologists and organists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Music as Message and the Ruling Principles of Petr Eben\u2019s Music-making<\/em>:\u00a0<small>by Johannes Landgren<\/small><\/li>\n<li><em>Petr Eben\u2014A \u201cRomanticist\u201d with a Modern Language<\/em>:\u00a0<small>by Martin Sander<\/small><\/li>\n<li><em>Petr Eben\u2014The Symphonic Works<\/em>:\u00a0<small>by Milan Slavick\u00fd<\/small><\/li>\n<li><em>The Organ Concertos of Petr Eben<\/em>:\u00a0<small>by John Browne<\/small><\/li>\n<li><em>Thoughts on\u00a0Laudes<\/em>:\u00a0<small>by Claude Hermitte<\/small><\/li>\n<li><em>Okna\u2014Chagall\u2019s Windows According to Petr Eben<\/em>:\u00a0<small>by David Titterington<\/small><\/li>\n<li><em>Petr Eben\u2019s Works for Organ with Other Instruments<\/em>:\u00a0<small>by Susan Landale<\/small><\/li>\n<li><em>God\u2019s Gesamtkunstwerk\u2014Petr Eben\u2019s\u00a0Faust<\/em>:\u00a0<small>by Janette Fishell<\/small><\/li>\n<li><em>Construction on Improvisation\u2014Eben\u2019s Job<\/em>:\u00a0<small>by Andreas Jacob<\/small><\/li>\n<li><em>Voices from the Whirlwind\u2014Perspectives on Petr Eben\u2019s\u00a0Job<\/em>:\u00a0<small>by Michael Bauer<\/small><\/li>\n<li><em>Petr Eben\u2019s Church Opera\u00a0Jeremias<\/em>:\u00a0<small>by Ruth Forsbach<\/small><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Author<br \/>\n<\/strong>Various writers<br \/>\nEdited by Graham Melville-Mason<\/p>\n<p><strong>Language<br \/>\n<\/strong>English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Society for Czech and Slovak Music, 2000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Formats and Prices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soft covers:<\/strong>\u00a0ISBN 0 9532769 1 0<br \/>\n<strong>Price (+ postage &amp; packing):<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a35.00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hard bound:<\/strong>\u00a0ISBN TBA<br \/>\n<strong>Price (+ postage &amp; packing):<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a310.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biographcal sketch of one of the Czech composer and organist, together with articles on various aspects of his music and discography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":509,"template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[19],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2141","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-dvorak-society-occasional-publications","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}