Shilgan, Antonin

Antonin Shilgan ( c . Antonín Šilhan ; May 23, 1875 , Slany - March 3, 1952 , Prague ) - Czech music critic.

He graduated from the Law Faculty of Charles University , in 1903 received the degree of Doctor of Law, in 1899 - 1935 . worked in Prague as a lawyer. He also studied piano, organ and violin. As a music critic, he was published in the Čas newspaper (1901–1902), the Přehled weekly (1902–1914, under the cryptonym -lh-) and in the Národní listy newspaper (1910–1941, under the cryptonym “aš”).

Shilgan was one of the leaders of a comparatively conservative party, which sharply opposed Zdenek Needly and his circle, although Shilgan’s main landmarks in the music of the recent past ( Bedrich Smetana as the central figure of Czech music, Richard Wagner , Gustav Mahler ) coincided with the landmarks of Needlı. At the same time, to the more avant-garde-language opera “Wines” by Otakar Zikh , close to Nejedly, Shilgan responded with a sharp article called “Finis musicae”. More thorough works with a research perspective were devoted to Shilgan's Smetana's opera Dalibor ( czech Smetanův Dalibor ; 1909 ) and the operatic heritage of Vitezslav Novák ( czech Opery Vítězslava Nováka ; 1932 ); he also published the paper Louis Spohr and his connections with Prague ( czech Louis Spohr a jeho styky s Prahou ; 1909 ).