Kelly St. Pierre: Smetana, Wagner, and the Music Battles of the 1870s
In the past, scholarly discussions of the “music battles” have focused on either disparaging Smetana’s opponents or rescuing him from the possibility of Wagner’s influence. In this paper, I want to shift from perpetuating the “battles” to investigating the propagandist strategies of Smetana’s supporters. Doing so opens up new understandings of Smetana and his compositions, especially concerning the composer’s fourth opera and most deliberately nationalistic work, Libuše.
Kelly St. Pierre (Wichita State University), která je mj. autorkou knihy Bedřich Smetana: Myth, Music, and Propaganda (University of Rochester Press 2017), bude na Ústavu hudební vědy FF UK v akademickém roce 2019/20 vyučovat jako stipendistka Fulbrigthovy nadace.
Event start | 13 March 2019 at 10:50 |
Event end | 13 March 2019 at 12:20 |
Type of event | Conference |
Organiser | Ústav hudední vědy FF UK |
Event website | https://uhv.ff.cuni.cz/cs/2019/02/21/prednaska-kelly-st-pierre-smetana-wagner-and-the-music-battles-of-the-1870s/?preview_id=9706&loggedout=true#038;preview_nonce=93b32cc77c&_thumbnail_id=9711&preview=true |
Venue | nám. Jana Palacha 2, Praha 1 (Ústav hudební vědy FF UK, místnost 405) |
Target group | Academic community |