Neuvěřitelná kauza Martinů (Jan Kapusta)
Bohuslav Martinů's body was placed into his homeground alongside his parents and recently deceased Charlotte - twenty years after his death. Until that time he was burried at the conductor Paul Sacher estate in remote Switzerland where Martinů passed away on the 28th of August 1959. During the Cold War period, it was impossible to transfer the body of a well known emigrant back to his homeland. Therefore it seems almost incredible that the very same idea appeared in the minds of Czech musicians and musicologists during the mid-seventies, in the middle of Czechoslovak normalization. Even more incredible is the fact that they succeeded. Musicologist Jan Kapusta (1932–2007), the participant of this case, has spent many years by researching on the history of this story. The result of his work in archives and interviews with witnesses is a monumental evidence of the circumstances' pettiness In Czechoslovakia during those days. Consequently, it is a valuable document about the communist cultural politics and propaganda and about the way how it was possible to form, deform and bend for various reasons. As the inseparable part of the book, there is a unique and in a large extent unpublished photographic documentation.
The book is available for example in the KOSMAS bookshop.
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Bohuslav Martinů's body was placed into his homeground alongside his parents and recently deceased Charlotte - twenty years after his death. Until that time he was burried at the conductor Paul Sacher estate in remote Switzerland where Martinů passed away on the 28th of August 1959. During the Cold War period, it was impossible to transfer the body of a well known emigrant back to his homeland. Therefore it seems almost incredible that the very same idea appeared in the minds of Czech musicians and musicologists during the mid-seventies, in the middle of Czechoslovak normalization. Even more incredible is the fact that they succeeded. Musicologist Jan Kapusta (1932–2007), the participant of this case, has spent many years by researching on the history of this story. The result of his work in archives and interviews with witnesses is a monumental evidence of the circumstances' pettiness In Czechoslovakia during those days. Consequently, it is a valuable document about the communist cultural politics and propaganda and about the way how it was possible to form, deform and bend for various reasons. As the inseparable part of the book, there is a unique and in a large extent unpublished photographic documentation.
The book is available for example in the KOSMAS bookshop.
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| Category: | Publications |
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| Autor: | Kapusta, Jan |
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