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Klíč: nezávislá revue soudobé hudby

(Prague, 1930-1932)

RIPM Preservation Series: European and North American Music Periodicals (2017)

Issues bear the inscription "Zpravodaj čsl.sekce Mezinárodní Společnosti pro soudobou hudbu a Spolku pro moderní hudbu v Praze." [Newsletter of the Czech Society for Modern Music and the Society for Modern Music in Prague.]

Publisher: Vydává Odeon

Editor: Mirko Očadlík

Periodicity: Annual

A journal dedicated to modern music, Klíč was founded by Mirko Očadlík (1904 -1964), “who was appointed professor of musicology at Charles University in Prague in 1951 after twenty years of work in Czechoslovak radio. Očadlík had his model in Zd. Nejedljý especially with regard to the thematic focus of his work, which is almost exclusively devoted to the problems of Smetana and his time. Očadlík developed a wide journalistic activity both in radio and in the daily press.”1

A survey of the contents of Klíč indicates a modernist approach, with articles on Kurt Weill, electroacoustic problems, Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes, jazz, the music of Leos Janáček, mechanical music, and Alois Hába’s compositional theories. New compositions are reviewed and a chronicle of significant concerts of modern music is included.

1“der seit 1951 nach einem zwanzigjährigen Wirken in dem tschechoslowakischen Rundfunk im Jahre 1951 zum Professor der Musikwissenschaft an der Karl-Universität in Prag ernannt wurde. Očadlík hatte sein Vorbild in Zd. Nejedljý besonders was die thematische Einstellung seines fast ausschließlich der Problematik Smetanas und dessen Zeit gewidmeten Werkes betrifft. Očadlík entwickelte eine weite journalistische Tätigkeit sowohl im Rundfunk als auch in der Tagespresse.” Theodora Straková, “Die tschechische Musikwissenschaft in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung,” in Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 17, no. 1/4, 273-274

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