Nielsen – Brod – Janáček
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https://doi.org/10.7146/cns.v4i0.27754Abstract
This article probes the musical relationship between Carl Nielsen and Leoš Janaček. Their mutual friend Max Brod was convinced that the two composers were spiritually related. A comparison of their musical language indicates a small number of common elements, especially in their music of the 1920s. Janaček believed that rhythmic figures in spoken language are related to states of mind and he constructed his own specific theory (so-called ‘sčasování’) about musical events in time related to psychological phenomena, and his mature work is based on this theory. Carl Nielsen’s ‘evil motif’ in the first movement of his 5th symphony comes very near to Janaček’s intention, and other ideas in this work suggest that Nielsen and Janaček intuitively arrived at similar techniques of dramatic expression. The last part of the article deals with Nielsen’s Bohemian-Danish Folk Songs , which is based on two national folksongs – Czech and Danish. It suggests that Nielsen’s quotation of the Czech song is not entirely correct.
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2009-04-10
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Kráčmar, T. (2009). Nielsen – Brod – Janáček. Carl Nielsen Studies, 4. https://doi.org/10.7146/cns.v4i0.27754
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