RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Dziadek, Magdalena
T1 Czechs in Poland in the 19th and 20th Century and Their Influence on the Development of Polish National Music
JF Musicologica Olomucensia
YR 2020
VO 31
IS 1
SP 37
OP 49
DO 10.5507/mo.2020.002
UL https://musicologica.upol.cz/artkey/mus-202001-0002.php
AB The contribution of Czech composers to the development of the Polish national music begins in the era of the activity of Jan Stefani, the composer of musical set to Cracovians and Highlanders by Wojciech Bogusławski, considered the first Polish national opera. Further on are the achievements of Wilem Würffel as the creator of polonaises and fantasies based on Polish national melodies. Although after the anti-Russian uprising (1831), many Czech musicians still worked in Poland as music teachers, members of orchestras or choir directors, their participation in shaping the formation of Polish national music was rather niche. It was influenced by political reality, which was not favorable to the development of Polish-Czech contacts, especially in the part of the country under Russian rule (here Czechs were seen as Russophiles). The impulse that increased interest in Czech music in Poland in the last decades of the 19th century was the awareness of its high position in Europe. The successes of Smetana and Dvořák's works discussed in foreign music press, prompted several Polish music activists to attempts to introduce them to national stages. However, it was only the beginning of the twientieth century when Czech national music was properly assessed by Polish composers. And here political factors played also a role - the "Czech Renaissance" in Polish musical thought was largely inspired by the events of the Prague Neo-Slav rally of 1908.