Article: Vladimir Lebl: 6th February 1928 Prague-8th June 1987 Prague.(portrait)

Vladimir Lebl was one of the most important of the Czech musicologists of the generation that started careers after the Second World War. He was an expert on 20th-century music and in the sixties one of the key figures in the birth of New Music in the former Czechoslovakia. He headed various authorial teams that in the seventies and eighties published comprehensive treatments of the history of Czech music. With the exception of the first few years immediately after he had completed his studies, he did not teach and therefore created no school. His most striking characteristic was his capacity to pose questions, to probe assertions and assumptions that had been repeated ...

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