Bedrich Vaska Papers 1875-1978

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Bedrich Vaska Papers 1875-1978

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The collection primarily consists of correspondence, but it also includes postcards, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Especially notable is Vaska's explanation of Bedrich Smetana's innermost, most personal feelings of "Ma Vlast," which Vaska used to better explain the scores to performing musicians. This "From My Life" is written in Vaska's hand in Czech, Finnish, German, French, and Polish languages, as he conducted "Ma Vlast" in those countries.

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Vaska, Bedrich, 1879-1979

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Biographical Note Cellist Bedrich Vaska was a native of Czechoslovakia who resided in the United States from 1911 until his death in 1978. He was a pupil of Antonin Dvorak, and studied at the Prague Conservatory where he met three other pupils of Dvorak -- Oscar Nedbal, Josef Suk, and Vitezslav Novak. Vaska became the last living pupil of Dvorak. He was the founder of, and had a long association with the Sevcik Quartet, 1899-1911. ...

Smetana, Bedřich, 1824-1884

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Czech composer. From the description of Partially printed document signed, dated : [n.p., Prague?], 15 March 1871, 1871 Mar. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270902301 Czechoslovakian composer. From the description of [Album leaf] : autograph manuscript, 1862 Jan. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270569555 ...