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I recently purchased this sheet music:

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I found it as it was being sold as a supply for scrapbooking/papercrafts.

(Rest assured: I am unlikely to USE it for crafting, as I have a fondness for vintage ephemera, books, photos, etc, and see them as more interesting artifacts than art supplies. :)

After a little research, I've been able to translate:

"Ouvertura ku stavnosti 100 letiych narozeniu Fr. Palackeho"

to be:
"Overture into jubilee (on the) 100 years birthday (of) Fr. Palacky"

Palacky, some Googling shows
(wiki here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palacky)
was a Czech historian, and one of the leaders of the "national awakening" in (what would later be) Czechoslovakia. He was born in 1798, which would make the writing of the overture about 5 years late...

I can't seem to find any info on the (apparent?) composer: "Jaros. Bauer" but there is an ink stamp suggesting that this music became part of a "J Bauer Library", which could be either personal or institutional.

There is mention made on these sheets:
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of a "Fr. Filipovsky"

Googling that name gives links to this Czech tv and film actor:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277070/filmotype
...who was born in 1907 in what was is now the Czech Republic.
Some very bad translations of some biographical material suggests that his father was a bandmaster, but I don't know the significance of his name being on the sheet music - was it written 'for' him/his band?

The seller is in Detroit, but I don't know how this was acquired.

I'm posting here because this seems to be a community of people familiar with sheet music. Any other info or insights anyone has would be welcome!

Thanks!
Anita

A "Jaroslav K. Bauer (Canada)" is mentioned as having had an exhibition (i.e., a scholarship) to the Royal Academy of Music extended by one year - source JSTOR, in The Musical Times, Volume 54, No. 839, page 33 (1 January 1913).

I'd regard it more likely for Bauer to be the composer, though I suppose it is also possible he was the copyist and liked identifying his work all over the place - the last of the graphics suggested Bauer had a characteristic signature as well as a monogram.

Philip

Thanks for the identification. Canada, eh? That would explain better how the Czech music ended up in Detroit.

Since Bauer's name is on the front, I assumed he was the composer, also - I'm just curious what the connection to Filipovsky is, and why his name is featured; perhaps he commissioned it? Is that sort of thing done with music?

Thanks!
Anita

miscelena wrote:perhaps he commissioned it? Is that sort of thing done with music?

Yes; I've played several pieces that had been commissioned for another orchestra or person and then widely published.