Bychkov: Glagolitic Mass Was Janáček's Patriotic Declaration

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The centrepiece of subscription concerts in the Rudolfinum as well as of the spring European tour of the Czech Philharmonic is the Glagolitic Mass, a late masterpiece by Leoš Janáček. He composed it in 1926, eight years after the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia. According to Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov, the mass can be thought of as a patriotic statement.
„Neither Smetana, nor Dvořák or any of the other ones lived to see the day when this country would become truly free and independent. Janáček did, he lived in the first ten years of independence. So one can understand the significance of this Glagolitic mass, that is so much connected to the feeling of belonging to the nation and expressing through music everything that the nation always aspired to be and to have,“ says Bychkov in the interview.
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Thank you for the interview! Enjoyed it.

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Glad to hear it!