Husitska pisen

[Geoffrey Chew]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, gladney frank y wrote:

> Can anyone tell me where I can hear a chorus singing "Kdoz jsou bozi
> bojovnici", the Husite hymn?

As far as I know there's no current recording of the chant "Ktoz jsu bozi
bojovnici" -- after all its post-Nejedly political connotations are not
universally popular these days (see for example Igor Belza's book on Czech
music, from the early 1950s, which makes it the "Marseillaise of the 15th
century", the pre-eminent symbol of Czech revolutionary, anti-German
aggressiveness).  Ensembles like the Schola Gregoriana Pragensis tend to
go for Catholic chants rather than Hussite ones -- see their CD "Anno
Domini 997", with "Hospodine pomiluj ny" and others.  But the melody is
quoted in dramatic fashion in quite a number of Czech compositions from
Smetana onwards -- it might be best to look there.

 Geoffrey Chew
 Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
 Internet: chew at sun.rhul.ac.uk
 Fax:      0870-131 6521 (UK)
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