{"id":2152,"date":"2022-02-12T11:59:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T11:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/?post_type=product&#038;p=2152"},"modified":"2025-12-13T08:32:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:32:40","slug":"bohumil-fidler-my-life-and-memories","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/?product=bohumil-fidler-my-life-and-memories","title":{"rendered":"Bohumil Fidler: \u201cMy Life and Memories\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pages:<\/strong>\u00a0144, illustrated.<\/p>\n<p>The composer, choirmaster, choral conductor and music teacher\u00a0<strong>Bohumil Fidler<\/strong>\u00a0(1860\u2009\u2013\u20091944), was born in P\u0159\u00edbram, southern Bohemia, where he spent his working life. The town was close to the summer home of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k at Vysok\u00e1 and a friendship developed between the two men.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to numerous photographs and other graphic material, the book includes valuable reminiscences of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s domestic life at Vysok\u00e1 and the relationship of the internationally renowned figure with the provincial musical life of his country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cOn warm summer evenings at Vysok\u00e1 we used to sit under the linden treest in front of the villa, smoking our pipes and sipping the fine P\u0159\u00edbam beer\u00a0\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nBohumil Fidler<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fidler himself was a remarkably talented man who devoted his career to the musical life of P\u0159\u00edbram, which is brought to life in the other parts of his autobiography.<\/p>\n<p>This first English language edition of Fidler\u2019s autobiography was translated by by Fidler\u2019s granddaughter\u00a0<strong>Eva Szabo<\/strong>\u00a0and edited his great granddaughter\u00a0<strong>Sonya Szabo Reynolds<\/strong>, a member of the piano faculty at Xavier University in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>There is a preface by\u00a0<strong>Michael Beckerman<\/strong>\u00a0of New York University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author<br \/>\nBohumil Fidler<\/strong><br \/>\nTranslated by\u00a0<strong>Eva Szabo<\/strong>\u00a0and edited by\u00a0<strong>Sonya Szabo Reynolds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Language<br \/>\n<\/strong>English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Society for Czech and Slovak Music, 2008. (This book was originally published in 1935 by\u00a0<em>Bookprinters Ant. Pelz<\/em>\u00a0in P\u0159\u00edbram, Czechoslovakia.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Formats and Prices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soft covers:<\/strong>\u00a0ISBN 978-095327696-7<br \/>\n<strong>Price (+ postage &amp; packing):<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a35.00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hard bound:<\/strong>\u00a0ISBN 978-095327697-4<br \/>\n<strong>Price (+ postage &amp; packing):<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a310.00<\/p>\n<p><strong>PDF Download:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Price:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a35.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memoirs of a friend of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":502,"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-2152","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\/2152","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\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}