{"id":46996,"date":"2024-08-28T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6e7cd772-09e5-4d62-8849-d28b0a6c9e24"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T09:07:15","slug":"today-at-the-bbc-proms-a-glorious-work-from-a-female-composer-who-died-tragically-young","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/today-at-the-bbc-proms-a-glorious-work-from-a-female-composer-who-died-tragically-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Today at the BBC Proms: a glorious work from a female composer who died tragically young"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Wednesday, 28 August 2024 at 08:50 AM<\/p>

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Welcome to your daily BBC Proms<\/a><\/strong> preview from BBC Music Magazine. It’s Wednesday 28 August, and today’s Prom 50 is an another evening of all-Czech repertoire.<\/p>

Keep visiting www.classical-music.com<\/a><\/strong> each day during the 2024 Proms, as every day we have an in-depth guide to that evening’s Prom concert. And if you want to see all the Proms in one place, head to our comprehensive 2024 BBC Proms guide<\/a><\/strong>. That’s where we’ve listed all of this year’s Proms. These include more than 70 concerts at London’s Royal Albert Hall, plus weekend festivals in Bristol, Nottingham and Gateshead, and chamber music<\/a><\/strong> concerts in Aberdeen, Newport and Belfast. <\/p>

What’s on at the BBC Proms today?<\/h2>

Today’s Prom is Prom 50. And, like yesterday’s Prom 49<\/a><\/strong>, it’s got a distinctly Czech flavour. <\/strong>We begin with the fantastic\u00a0Military Sinfonietta<\/em> by the relatively little-known female Czech composer <\/strong>V\u00edt\u011bzslava Kapr\u00e1lov\u00e1 (1915-1940). Composed for her graduation from the Prague Conservatory in 1937, the\u00a0Military Sinfonietta<\/em>\u00a0packs plenty of excitement into its 15 minutes. Rousing and richly orchestrated, the piece was composed by Kapr\u00e1lov\u00e1 as a response to the military threat posed to her beloved Czechoslovakia (Nazi Germany would invade the Czech Sudetenland the following year). <\/p>

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    Taught by her fellow Czech composer Bohus\u0142av Martin\u016f<\/a><\/strong> and others, Kapr\u00e1lov\u00e1 was a hugely talented composer who could perhaps have gone on to become one of the 20th century’s major musical figures. However, her life was cut tragically short when she died in 1940, at the age of 25, possibly from typhoid fever.<\/p>