Scénické melodramy Zdeňka Fibicha a Josefa Suka: porovnání stylu a recepce
| Title in English | Zdeněk Fibich’s and Josef Suk’s stage melodramas: comparison of the style and reception |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | After the premieres of Julius Zeyer’s plays with Josef Suk’s incidental music (Radúz and Mahulena and Under the Apple Tree), some Czech critics contrasted Suk’s manner of using melodrama in a stage work to that in Fibich’s Hippodamia. This comparison resulted from different opinions about melodrama in general. According to some critics, Fibich’s intention to accompany a whole drama with music resulted in the music being superfluous and disruptive in many passages, whereas Suk sensed precisely which passages of the text needed musical accompaniment and which did not. On the contrary, Fibich’s supporters stated that Suk’s melodramatic music was merely background, evoking a mood, without sufficient dramatic and psychological characterization of the text. The subject of this paper was an attempt at an objective comparison that can help answer the question of the extent to which such disputes are justified. The paper has been published in the form of a larger study in the periodical Musicologica Olomucensia. |