7. The generation of the 1890s, music of the 20^th century


24 November


The modern movement of the 1890s in art, literature, and music

Zdeněk Fibich

Vítězslav Novák

Josef Suk

Otakar Ostrčil

early Leoš Janáček

Neoclassicism and Bohuslav Martinů

The radical avant-garde: Alois Hába

German and Jewish composers (Krása, Schulhoff, Ullmann, Haas)

Miloslav Kabeláč

Jan Novák

Zdeněk Liška




Assigned reading:


Beckerman, Michael. “In Search of Czechness in Music.” In: Frisch, Walter and D. Kern Holoman and
Joseph Kerman. 19^th Century Music. Vol. X, number 1. Summer 1986, pp. 61-73.