Fifty years ago, when Jaromír Černý wrote the study Středověký vícehlas v českých zemích (Medieval Polyphony in the Bohemian Lands), among the compositions written using the voice exchange technique (Stimmtausch), which are some of the oldest examples of polyphony in this country, he identified a…

This study deals with the composer and singer Mathias de Sayve, who was active at the Prague court of Emperor Rudolf II. It offers new information about his life and activities in his position as a court musician. At the same time, it attempts to evaluate his compositional oeuvre. It characterises…

After briefly explaining what the term piano reduction means, the article deals with Smetana’s piano arrangements of his own and other people’s compositions originally written for different instrumentation and vocal parts. Arrangements of orchestral compositions for two and four pianos were intended…

The article deals with a number of items from the estate of Marie Wachsmannová (1866–1943), preserved amongst which are, in particular, her autograph album and a few letters from Josef Suk (1874–1935). At the beginning of the 1890s, the pianist Marie Wachsmannová was briefly Suk’s muse. The composer…

Vladislav Vladislavovič Šak (1894–1977) was a pianist, conductor, composer, and musical entrepreneur. He was behind the founding of the Umělecký klub (Artists’ Club) and was its first chairman. In 1919 he established the limited company Presto, a concert and theatrical agency with publishing and…

The study explains how the estate of the Czech musicologist, composer, event organiser, choirmaster, conductor, and scouting movement official Jarmil Burghauser (1921–1997) came into the possession of the National Museum – Antonín Dvořák Museum. It remains in storage there and will now undergo…