Emanuel Chvála [SEP] place of death
Emanuel Chvála
Emanuel Chvála (January 1, 1851, Prague – October 28, 1924, Prague) was a Czech composer and music critic.
Works.
- "Záboj" (1918), an opera to a poem by Jaroslav Vrchlický.
- "O posvícení" (1902), an orchestral poem describing the day of the kermis in a Czech village. (WP: 16. February 1902 by the Czech Philharmonic under Ludvík Čelanský)
. The studio nevertheless was well respected among students, drawing such names as Emanuel Chvála, Karel Kovařovic, Otakar Ostrčil, and Zdeněk Nejedlý, the notorious critic and subsequent politician. Much of the reception of Fibich's music in the early twentieth century is a result of these students' efforts after their teacher's death, especially in Nejedlý's highly polemical campaigns enacted in a series of monographs and articles that sought to redress what he considered to be past inequities. Although this served to bring Fibich's music to greater attention,