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Markéta Hallová: Známí, neznámí i údajní žáci Antonína Dvořáka na pražské konzervatoři
Markéta Hallová: Known, unknown and alleged students of Antonín Dvořák at the Prague Conservatory
Event by: Antonín Dvořák
Location: Antonín Dvořák Museum, Ke Karlovu 462/20, Praha 2
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Markéta Hallová: Known, unknown and alleged students of Antonín Dvořák at the Prague Conservatory – seven dozen of the composer's graduates of the composition studies based on a closer look and new findings.
Lecture from the series for the 215th anniversary of the beginning of classes at the Prague Conservatory.
presale: https://shorturl.at/oGmvc
A lecture by Markéta Hallová with a performance of some of the compositions that were created under Dvořák's supervision, with a live piano performance by Jana Chaudhuri.
At the beginning of the program, a speech by the director of the Prague Conservatory, Ivo Kahánek.
Antonín Dvořák was invited to teach at the Conservatory of Music in Prague at the time of his growing popularity at home and abroad, and his influence at the school greatly increased the prestige of this art school. We speak of his contribution as a teacher today as the Dvořák school of composition. This could have happened after the influence of the so-called organ school on the Prague Conservatory (1890). The teaching at the conservatory, originally focused only on the instrumental or singing training of the students, has since been expanded to include the subject of composition, which was the domain of the old organ school and which both Antonín Dvořák and other composers, such as Karel Bendl and Leoš Janáček, went through there. Dvořák accepted the offer to educate the young generation of composers only after initial hesitation and rejection. However, he changed his mind and joined on January 1, 1891; he was active at the school until his death (May 1, 1904), with the exception of the period of his stay in America (autumn 1892 - spring 1895), when he requested an unpaid leave of absence and provided his compositional and pedagogical skills to American students at Mrs. J. Thurber's National Conservatory of Music in New York. He taught at the conservatory in Prague for a total of over ten years. First in unattractive rooms after the organ school in the old Konvikt, but then in a better classroom in 1884/5 for the conservatory acquired by Rudolfinum, today's seat of the Czech Philharmonic. A long line of listeners passed through his hands; but some of the students in his class ran away. Only the gifted understood him. And you will learn more about those who graduated and made their mark, as well as those less known to us, who lived, for example, outside the borders of Austria-Hungary (such as Jan Zámečník - composer of film music, especially of the silent film era at Paramount Picture) and others, at this lecture with a musical program. Dvořák.
Lecture from the series for the 215th anniversary of the beginning of classes at the Prague Conservatory.
presale: https://shorturl.at/oGmvc
A lecture by Markéta Hallová with a performance of some of the compositions that were created under Dvořák's supervision, with a live piano performance by Jana Chaudhuri.
At the beginning of the program, a speech by the director of the Prague Conservatory, Ivo Kahánek.
Antonín Dvořák was invited to teach at the Conservatory of Music in Prague at the time of his growing popularity at home and abroad, and his influence at the school greatly increased the prestige of this art school. We speak of his contribution as a teacher today as the Dvořák school of composition. This could have happened after the influence of the so-called organ school on the Prague Conservatory (1890). The teaching at the conservatory, originally focused only on the instrumental or singing training of the students, has since been expanded to include the subject of composition, which was the domain of the old organ school and which both Antonín Dvořák and other composers, such as Karel Bendl and Leoš Janáček, went through there. Dvořák accepted the offer to educate the young generation of composers only after initial hesitation and rejection. However, he changed his mind and joined on January 1, 1891; he was active at the school until his death (May 1, 1904), with the exception of the period of his stay in America (autumn 1892 - spring 1895), when he requested an unpaid leave of absence and provided his compositional and pedagogical skills to American students at Mrs. J. Thurber's National Conservatory of Music in New York. He taught at the conservatory in Prague for a total of over ten years. First in unattractive rooms after the organ school in the old Konvikt, but then in a better classroom in 1884/5 for the conservatory acquired by Rudolfinum, today's seat of the Czech Philharmonic. A long line of listeners passed through his hands; but some of the students in his class ran away. Only the gifted understood him. And you will learn more about those who graduated and made their mark, as well as those less known to us, who lived, for example, outside the borders of Austria-Hungary (such as Jan Zámečník - composer of film music, especially of the silent film era at Paramount Picture) and others, at this lecture with a musical program. Dvořák.