Piano Music of the Czech Romantics: A Performer's Guide

Contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Georg Anton (Jiri Antonin) Benda (1722 - 1795)
• The Prussian Connection
• 2. Leopold Kozeluh (1747 - 1818)
• The Viennese Connection
• 3. Jan Ladislav Dusik (1760 - 1812)
• The London Connection
• 4. Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek (1774 - 1850)
• The Musical Patriarch of Prague
• 5. Jan Vaclav (Hugo) Vorisek (1791 - 1825)
• The Bohemian Schubert
• 6. Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)
• An Icon of Nationalism
• 7. Antonin Dvorak (1841 - 1904)
• Humoresques and Beyond
• 8. Zdenek Fibich (1850 - 1900)
• An Intimate Life's Journey
• 9. Leos Janacek (1854 - 1928)
• The Moravian Connection
• 10. Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859 - 1951)
• A Lifetime of Lyricism
• 11. Vitezslav Novak (1870 - 1949)
• The Slovakian Connection
• 12. Josef Suk (1874 - 1935)
• The Dvorak Legacy Transformed
• 13. Bohuslav Martinu (1890 - 1959)
• From Tower Dweller to Cosmopolite
• 14. Alois Haba (1893 - 1973)
• Master of Microtones
• 15. Ervin Schulhoff (1894 - 1942)
• The Berlin Connection
• 16. Viktor Ullmann (1898 - 1944)
• The Hero of Terezin
• 17. Klement Slavicky (1910 - 1999)
• The Janacek Legacy Transformed
• 18. Petr Eben (b. 1929)
• Folklore, Antiquity, Spirituality
• Appendix: Repertoire, Editions, Recordings-A Selective Listing
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index