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Emil Břetislav Lvovský or Who was the harshest
Viennese critic of Antonín Dvořák’s music?
Viktor Velek
Univerza v Ostravi
University of Ostrava
State of Research
The life and work of Emil Břetislav Lvovský show a very wide spectrum of
activities. This study will focus on his biography and journalistic activi-
ties, but he can also be viewed from other perspectives: as a composer, as a
teacher, as a musician (pianist, double bass player) or as a librettist. In terms
of methodology, this paper applies chronology, with the introduction map-
ping the “state of research” (literature, sources).
Literature
The mention in a Czech obituary from 1910 that Lvovský was “a well-known
composer and writer”1 reflects his increased compositional activity at the
end of his life, or his merits in the form of messages he sent to Prague from
Lviv and Vienna. The Viennese-Czech cultural worker Jan Heyer (1883–
1942) noted in 1940 that “the books on the history of Czech music and Czech
encyclopaedias are silent about him [Lvovský].”2 That was true concerning
the past, but in the same year the musicologist Vladimír Helfert (1886–1945)
offered a personal entry in Pazdírek’s Musicians Dictionary.3 Helfert may
1 Anon., “Zprávy. Úmrtí,” Česká hudba 4, no. 12 (1910): 97.
2 Jan Heyer, “Česká hudební viennensia. Poznámky a doplňky k dosavadnímu zpra-
cování látky,” Dunaj. Menšinová revue 17, no. 3–4 (1940): 349.
3 Vladimír Helfert, “Lvovský, Břetislav,” in Pazdírkův hudební slovník naučný. II. Část
osobní – Svazek druhý L–M, eds. Oldřich Pazdírek, Gracian Černušák and Vladimír
Helfert (Brno: Oldřich Pazdírek 1940), 70.
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Emil Břetislav Lvovský or Who was the harshest
Viennese critic of Antonín Dvořák’s music?
Viktor Velek
Univerza v Ostravi
University of Ostrava
State of Research
The life and work of Emil Břetislav Lvovský show a very wide spectrum of
activities. This study will focus on his biography and journalistic activi-
ties, but he can also be viewed from other perspectives: as a composer, as a
teacher, as a musician (pianist, double bass player) or as a librettist. In terms
of methodology, this paper applies chronology, with the introduction map-
ping the “state of research” (literature, sources).
Literature
The mention in a Czech obituary from 1910 that Lvovský was “a well-known
composer and writer”1 reflects his increased compositional activity at the
end of his life, or his merits in the form of messages he sent to Prague from
Lviv and Vienna. The Viennese-Czech cultural worker Jan Heyer (1883–
1942) noted in 1940 that “the books on the history of Czech music and Czech
encyclopaedias are silent about him [Lvovský].”2 That was true concerning
the past, but in the same year the musicologist Vladimír Helfert (1886–1945)
offered a personal entry in Pazdírek’s Musicians Dictionary.3 Helfert may
1 Anon., “Zprávy. Úmrtí,” Česká hudba 4, no. 12 (1910): 97.
2 Jan Heyer, “Česká hudební viennensia. Poznámky a doplňky k dosavadnímu zpra-
cování látky,” Dunaj. Menšinová revue 17, no. 3–4 (1940): 349.
3 Vladimír Helfert, “Lvovský, Břetislav,” in Pazdírkův hudební slovník naučný. II. Část
osobní – Svazek druhý L–M, eds. Oldřich Pazdírek, Gracian Černušák and Vladimír
Helfert (Brno: Oldřich Pazdírek 1940), 70.
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