As far as I know, apart from tempo indications he only seldom used Italian and the vast majority of his titles is in Czech. He also has a plenty of Slovakian song cycles and some song cycles are also in German (i.e. Spring Sentiments, Notturnos). With the exception of this cycle the only other Italian titles I can think of are the Trio quasi una ballata, the respective pieces of the Exoticon cycle and Sonata Eroica. However, even the sonata is often referred to phonetically as Eroika in some books from the first half of the 20th century. I don´t know why he chose Italian titles in either of these works, but Novák himself stated that Exoticon to him was a symbolical means of escape to a foreign land, away from his past. Maybe it could be a small hint as to why he chose foreign language there.
I don't know how somewhere else, but in Europe was Italian the language of musicians. I never learned Italian, but as a czech child I learned all those italian words important for musicians. Lento, Adagio, Largo, Allegro, Presto, Piano, Mezzoforte,Forte, Crescendo, Decrescendo, Morendo, Vivace ma non troppo, subito piano da capo al fine etc etc. So not only Novák, also Beethoven, Mozart, Dvořák, Smetana, Čajkovskij, Chopin, Elgar, Bernstein etc. etc.
Prekrasne pane Novaku❤
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Out of curiosity .... why did Novak opt to use Italian to choose titles?
As far as I know, apart from tempo indications he only seldom used Italian and the vast majority of his titles is in Czech. He also has a plenty of Slovakian song cycles and some song cycles are also in German (i.e. Spring Sentiments, Notturnos).
With the exception of this cycle the only other Italian titles I can think of are the Trio quasi una ballata, the respective pieces of the Exoticon cycle and Sonata Eroica. However, even the sonata is often referred to phonetically as Eroika in some books from the first half of the 20th century.
I don´t know why he chose Italian titles in either of these works, but Novák himself stated that Exoticon to him was a symbolical means of escape to a foreign land, away from his past. Maybe it could be a small hint as to why he chose foreign language there.
@@SlavicSpoon maybe you are right....... Or perhaps he was thinking nostalgically to an Italian ........ affair :-) who knows ......
Novak was a Czech nationalist. He was christened Viktor Novak but changed the spelling of the first name to Vitezslav in his late teens.
I don't know how somewhere else, but in Europe was Italian the language of musicians. I never learned Italian, but as a czech child I learned all those italian words important for musicians. Lento, Adagio, Largo, Allegro, Presto, Piano, Mezzoforte,Forte, Crescendo, Decrescendo, Morendo, Vivace ma non troppo, subito piano da capo al fine etc etc. So not only Novák, also Beethoven, Mozart, Dvořák, Smetana, Čajkovskij, Chopin, Elgar, Bernstein etc. etc.
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