Otakar Hostinský

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Otakar Hostinský (born January 2, 1847 in Martinoves , † January 19, 1910 in Prague ) was a Czech aesthetician and musicologist, literary critic and art theorist.

Life

Hostinský was the son of a sugar factory manager. After attending grammar school in Prague's New Town in 1865, he studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague and Munich. In 1869 he wrote his doctoral thesis. After completing his training, he wrote for several magazines and worked on the Almanch of Czech Students . From 1874 to 1876 he accepted positions of educator for nobles in Austria , Germany and Italy . In 1877 Hostinský became a lecturer at Prague University . At the same time he gave lectures on art history at the Academy of Painting, the Art Industrial School and the Prague Conservatory . In 1883 he was appointed university professor.

Teaching

He devoted his whole life to organizing cultural life. He wrote articles for the magazines Dalibor , Hudební listy , Pokrok , Lumír , Osvěty , Květy , Národní listy and others, gave public lectures, including in the Artist Discussion Club ( Umělecká beseda ). He propagated modern styles of music, especially works by Richard Wagner and Bedřich Smetana . Hostinský was the chairman of the Czech Slavic Ethnographic Association and the Philosophical Unit .

His aesthetic view was based on Johann Friedrich Herbart . He enriched his knowledge through research in numerous writings, including scientific, musical and historical. He emphasized the principle of inventiveness and patriotism in art and advocated the coexistence of realism and neo-romanticism.

Works

He published the results of his work in German in Herbart's Aesthetik and in Czech in the book O významu Practických ideí Herbartových pro všeobecnou estetiku . In addition, he wrote numerous works on the history of music, for example on Smetana, Fibich and Wagner, including research results on national songs. He is also the author of the libretto for the opera The Bride of Messina by Zdeněk Fibich .

German-language publications

  • The Doctrine of Musical Sounds, 1879
  • The musical beauty and the total work of art from the standpoint of formal aesthetics, 1877
  • Herbart's aesthetics in their basic parts illustrated and explained by sources, Hamburg - Leipzig 1891
  • On the importance of Herbart's practical ideas for general aesthetics, 1883

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SURNAME Hostinský, Otakar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech aesthetician and musicologist, literary critic and art theorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Martinoves
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1910
Place of death Prague