Nucený návrat domů : k proměně reflexe Josefa Bohuslava Foerstera v prvních letech Československé republiky

With the exception of Leoš Janáček, composers from the generation of the so-called Czech Modern Music scarcely succeeded in presenting their work abroad in the first years of the new Czechoslovak Republic. The foreign interest in composers was indicated especially by contracts concluded with prominent publishing houses, such as the Universal Edition in Vienna, progressively developing since 1901. While in 1909–1910 the publishing house discovers Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Josef Suk, and Vítězslav Novák, and invests in their work with the prospect of certain profit, after the First World War it focuses its attention on the new generation of composers and the previously unnoticed avant-garde Second Viennese School, as well as on Leoš Janáček. Foerster, who returns to his homeland after the quarter century spent outside the Czech country, has to accept the local environment which makes it difficult to stay in touch with prominent personalities of the European culture.