DOBROSLAV OREL A SLOVENSKÝ HUDOBNÝ ROMANTIZMUS

• Authors: Lengová Jana

Title variants

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Dobroslav Orel and Slovak musical Romanticism

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

This article examines the contribution of the university professor Dr. Dobroslav Orel, working in the 1920s and ’30s in Bratislava, to the knowledge of musical romanticism in Slovakia. The focus is on Orel’s activity as a music historian, conductor, populariser of music, and organiser. The analysis is made of his three pivotal monographs: on J. L. Bella, Š. Fajnor, and F. Liszt and his relationship to Bratislava. In the forefront stands the figure of J. L. Bella. Orel regarded him as the foremost composer, with a moral charisma on which a tradition of Slovak art music might be built. With regard to J. L. Bella’s personality, Orel’s lectures for the public, his support for the performance of the composer’s works (especially choirs, the opera Wieland the Smith and the cantata Jánošík’s Wedding), publishing activities and a posthumous exhibition presenting valuable exhibits from Bella’s estate are further examined.

Keywords

EN

DOBROSLAV OREL; JÁN LEVOSLAV BELLA; ŠTEFAN FAJNOR; FRANZ LISZT; BRATISLAVA; ROMANTICISM

• Publisher: Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences; VEDA, Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Musicologica Slovaca
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 13 (39)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 208-232

Contributors

author

Lengová Jana

• Ústav hudobnej vedy SAV, v. v. i., Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava 4, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1671-3254

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/musicoslov.2022.2.5