Musicologica Olomucensia vol. 1, (1993):41-47
THE CZECH MANIFESTO OF NEO-CLASSICISM. MARGINALIA ON THE ESSAY OF IŠA KREJŠÍ "ON THE CONCEPTION OF MODERNITY IN TODAY´S MUSIC"
The essay of Iša Krejčí (1904-1968) "On the Conception of Modernity in Today´s Music" was for just reasons deemed the Czech manifesto of neo-classicism. In this essay, Iša Krejčí seems to voice the theses of petist and constructivist manifestos. The father of his ideas about solving the crisis of post-romantic music is, above all, Bohuslav Martinů. We cannot find Krejčí´s manifesto a juvenile messanistic gesture. First, it is the self-reflection of a 23-year-old composer, who senses instinctively, that he belongs to bearers of the specific Czech musical mentality, a mentality which originates in the tradition of Czech schoolmasters´ music and in what Krejčí calls "the Prague Mozartness". Krejčí considers how to connect such a gift with both the vital feeling of his anti-romantic generation and with, as he stresses in this article, the need of the era.
Published: June 11, 1993 Show citation
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