Vitulka
THEME: love and relationships
Vítězslava Kaprálová has made an indelible mark on music history. As a woman, she did not have it easy in the all-male orchestral world, but she only had to pick up the baton and "set everyone straight".
In July 1938, the talented composer Vítězslava Kaprálová stayed at the family villa No. 29 in Tře Studne, where she invited her teacher and friend Bohuslav Martinů. The surrounding landscape completely enchanted Martinů - it reminded him of his childhood in Polička. Here the forty-eight-year-old composer spent happy moments of awakened youth and creative inspiration alongside the young "Vitulka".
Kaprálová often said that she was happiest at Three Wells. Although she died two years later at the age of just 25 in Montpellier, France, she managed to compose nearly 50 works and conduct the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Orchestra in London.
The spirit of the place later inspired the poet Miloslav Bures, who in 1954 composed a poem about the custom of cleaning wells here, which Martinů set to music as the famous cantata "Opening the Wells". Every last Saturday in May, music, poetry and the genius loci of this magical place in Vysočina symbolically meet in the forest area near the wells Vitulka and Barborka.
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