RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Balódy, Milan
T1 The Media Image of Bedřich Smetana and Zdeněk Fibich in Czech Illustrated Magazines Published in the First Half of the 1880s
JF Musicologica Olomucensia
YR 2022
VO 33
IS 2
SP 409
OP 428
DO 10.5507/mo.2021.024
UL https://musicologica.upol.cz/artkey/mus-202102-0009.php
AB The media expand the biographical research of leading composers with at least a social context. They tell about a society, a mentality of the time, which it not only reflected, but also shaped. The study deals with such verbal and pictorial contributions in Czech illustrated magazines of the first half of the 1880s which concerned Bedřich Smetana and Zdeněk Fibich, and thus had the potential to co-create their media image. Published texts from music critics, semi-professional or lay writers were used. With a trawl of humorous magazines, the research could be extended to include cartoons which commented on cultural events. Due to the verification of the findings, I also use unillustrated periodicals in this study (especially the music magazine Dalibor and at that time the most widespread daily newspaper Národní listy), memoir literature and other sources.