Dopisy Jána Levoslava Belly Ludevítu Procházkovi
Ján Levoslav Bella’s Writings to Ludevít Procházka

Summary/Abstract: This article presents hitherto unpublished letters from the Slovak composer and pedagogue Ján Levoslav Bella to the music critic, editor, organiser, pianist, conductor, and composer Jan Ludevít Procházka. Two letters and one commemorative inscription of Bella augment the correspondence between the two men published in 1924 by Dobroslav Orel, which is more or less one-directional from Procházka to Bella. These new sources are preserved in the Procházka album deposited in the Czech Museum of Music (part of the National Museum) in Prague. The letters attest to Procházka’s importance for Bella’s development as a composer during the time when he wrote his symphonic poem Osud a ideál (Destiny and Ideal).

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