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The end of September saw the 50th year of the Warsaw Autumn, one of the most prestigious festivals of contemporary music. Unfortunately, Czech music has been and still is very sporadically represented at the festival, and this has been especially true since the 1980s. If we take a look at the carefully kept list--presented in this year's programme--of all the composers whose music has been played at the festival, we discover the following facts. Since the founding of the festival in 1956, the programmes have included pieces by a total of twenty-eight Czech composers, counting Janacek, Martinu, Haba, Vitezslav Novak and Czechs permanently living abroad--Petr Kotik, Rudolf Komorous, and Jan Novak. Seventeen of these twenty-eight Czech composers were presented at the festival before 1980. In the next more than quarter of a century only fifteen Czech works by ten composers have been played, and in fact almost half of these were performed...
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