Œuvres orchestrales

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Although she only lived until the age of 25, Vítezslava Kaprálová taught a lesson to all those who think that one can only compose music with a degree. This incredibly talented Czech simply wrote music and was on her way to becoming one of the greats before succumbing to a typhus infection in France in 1940. Two years earlier, she had opened the International Society for New Music festival in London with her Military Sinfonietta, which was enthusiastically received by both the press and the public; her piano concerto, her graduation piece in her hometown of Brno, was a brilliant success; her Suite Rustica featuring famous Czech folk songs was nothing short of a "pop hit." ... It is sometimes difficult to understand the whims of fate.