Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Nielsen – Brod – Janáček
View through CrossRef
This article probes the musical relationship between Carl Nielsen and Leoš Janaček. Their mutual friend Max Brod was convinced that the two composers were spiritually related. A comparison of their musical language indicates a small number of common elements, especially in their music of the 1920s. Janaček believed that rhythmic figures in spoken language are related to states of mind and he constructed his own specific theory (so-called ‘sčasování’) about musical events in time related to psychological phenomena, and his mature work is based on this theory. Carl Nielsen’s ‘evil motif’ in the first movement of his 5th symphony comes very near to Janaček’s intention, and other ideas in this work suggest that Nielsen and Janaček intuitively arrived at similar techniques of dramatic expression. The last part of the article deals with Nielsen’s Bohemian-Danish Folk Songs , which is based on two national folksongs – Czech and Danish. It suggests that Nielsen’s quotation of the Czech song is not entirely correct.
Title: Nielsen – Brod – Janáček
Description:
This article probes the musical relationship between Carl Nielsen and Leoš Janaček.
Their mutual friend Max Brod was convinced that the two composers were spiritually related.
A comparison of their musical language indicates a small number of common elements, especially in their music of the 1920s.
Janaček believed that rhythmic figures in spoken language are related to states of mind and he constructed his own specific theory (so-called ‘sčasování’) about musical events in time related to psychological phenomena, and his mature work is based on this theory.
Carl Nielsen’s ‘evil motif’ in the first movement of his 5th symphony comes very near to Janaček’s intention, and other ideas in this work suggest that Nielsen and Janaček intuitively arrived at similar techniques of dramatic expression.
The last part of the article deals with Nielsen’s Bohemian-Danish Folk Songs , which is based on two national folksongs – Czech and Danish.
It suggests that Nielsen’s quotation of the Czech song is not entirely correct.
Related Results
Three Woodwind Quintets
Three Woodwind Quintets
Henri Brod (1799–1839) was a French oboist, instrument-maker, and composer active throughout the early nineteenth century. He studied oboe under Gustave Vogt at the Paris Conservat...
Janácek’s Sinfonietta
Janácek’s Sinfonietta
A definitive study of Janáček's Sinfonietta, tracing its creation, reception, and rise to international prominence.
This book provides a musical 'biography' of Leoš Janáček's (18...
Alternative Neo-Riemannian Approaches to Carl Nielsen
Alternative Neo-Riemannian Approaches to Carl Nielsen
On the basis of songs or songlike themes from three periods of Nielsen’s career I try to show how Nielsen’s harmonic progressions become simpler while displaying a more refined com...
Carl Nielsen and Tivoli
Carl Nielsen and Tivoli
The basis for the article is a complete overview covering every performance of music by Carl Nielsen in the summer season of the Copenhagen pleasure garden, Tivoli, during the comp...
Carl Nielsen and his Organ Preludes in the Context of Hans Henny Jahnn, Hugo Distler and Ernst Pepping
Carl Nielsen and his Organ Preludes in the Context of Hans Henny Jahnn, Hugo Distler and Ernst Pepping
In summer 1931 a correspondence between Carl Nielsen and the German author Hans Henny Jahnn (1894-1959) started. Jahnn was organ builder and publisher of music in unison. He knew t...
Carl Nielsen and the Radio
Carl Nielsen and the Radio
On 1 April 1925 Denmark introduced national control of its hitherto privately run and relatively chaotic radio broadcasting. Denmark would quickly show itself to be one of Europe’s...
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (born 1883, Prague, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria) was a German-language writer whose works—most famously The Trial ...
Carl Nielsen and Nancy Dalberg. Nancy Dalberg as Carl Nielsen’s Pupil, Assistant and Patron
Carl Nielsen and Nancy Dalberg. Nancy Dalberg as Carl Nielsen’s Pupil, Assistant and Patron
This article throws light on the connection between Nielsen and Nancy Dalberg, one of his less well-known composition pupils. She studied with Nielsen from c . 1912, and in the fol...