Antonín Dvořák in Czech and International Musical Canons

Srdečně zveme na další přednášku z cyklu Dialogo della musica, kterou přednese Matthew Gelbart (New York, Praha) na téma Antonín Dvořák in Czech and International Musical Canons.

Přednáška se uskuteční v úterý 27. května 2025 v 17 hodin v Muzikologické knihovně ÚDU AV ČR, Puškinovo nám. 9, Praha 6.

Whether to uphold it or attack it, commentators have often spoken of “the Western canon” of music (as in other arts). Other commentators have stressed the existence of “multiple canons” simultaneously. Dvořák makes an interesting example of a composer who shows the power of both of these concepts and – most importantly – how they interact with each other, since shaping and enforcing any canon is a dynamic exercise in authority and community-building. As there are multiple international canons in conversation against each other, so there are multiple and changing Czech musical canons: from rival historiographical camps to enduring traditions in elementary school textbooks, from university discourse to concert stages. Furthermore, there are often rifts between what people think they “should” know and what they actually listen to across social classes, ethnic groups, and beyond. This talk follows Dvořák’s music through the intersections and disconnections between these different layers.

Matthew Gelbart je profesorem hudby na Fordham University v New Yorku. Je autorem dvou knih The Invention of “Folk Music” and “Art Music”: Emerging Categories from Ossian to Wagner (Cambridge University Press, 2007) a Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology: Belonging in the Age of Originality (Oxford University Press, 2022). Publikoval také řadu článků a kapitol o evropské hudbě devatenáctého století a o populární hudbě ve dvacátém století. Jeho práci spojuje zájem o to, jak dáváme hudbě smysl prostřednictvím kategorií a identit.