During field research in the Záhorie region the collector Karol Plicka (1894 – 1987) was impressed by the singer Eva Studeničová from the village of Moravský Svätý Ján. Although he published only a small fragment of the songs (43 records), the song collection Eva Studeničová Sings (1928) is the first song monograph in Slovakia on an important bearer of the song tradition. The reconstruction of the complete song repertoire which the collector recorded from this singer relied on both manuscript and published records. The result was a repertoire amounting to 209 songs gathered from this singer. Apart from that, 88 song records which Plicka recorded from other singers in the village have been identified. Together with the songs from Eva Studeničová’s repertoire, this makes a corpus totalling 297 songs, which Plicka documented in this locality.
Bratislava Choral Society, founded in 1879, focused on the cultivation of mixed choral singing. Under the leadership of its first choirmaster Anton Strehlen (1879 – 1906), its concerts were already of a high artistic level. The programmes of concerts and soirées consisted of cantatas, choirs, hymns, vocal ensembles (especially vocal quartets), extracts from operas, and also instrumental music. This article is concerned with the Society’s concert repertoire in the era of A. Strehlen, particularly the presentation of cantata works (by R. Mader, N. W. Gade, R. Schumann, M. Bruch, H. Hofmann, G. Zichy, among others) and their reception. New findings are presented on the biography of A. Strehlen and other singers and instrumentalists participating in the Society’s activity.
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