Emil Axman in the Service of the National Museum The musicologist and composer Emil Axman (1887–1949) was one of the most important figures in the history of the music collection at the National Museum. Emil Axman was hired in 1913 by the National Museum to serve in an auxiliary position in the…

The fleeting gestures of conductors in Hugo Boettinger’s drawings The study, based on the example of several conductor personalities whom the painter Hugo Boettinger (1880–1934) met, presents the most typical feature and source of inspiration of the author’s work – the ability to capture the…