CMQ 2/2026

Czech Music Quarterly is a magazine in English focused on Czech classical music. Czech Music Quarterly provides a wide spectrum of information for music professionals and the general music public alike. Czech Music Quarterly offers interviews with and portraits of Czech composers and performers, often with a special focus on contemporary classical music, information about current events, reviews and wide-ranging articles from leading Czech musicologists.

Contents:

POSITIVE ULTERIOR MOTIVES

AN INTERVIEW WITH COMPOSER MICHAL NEJTEK

by Michal Wróblewski

RADEK KŘIŽANOVSKÝ

MAKING MUSIC YOUR WAY AND FACING THE CONSEQUENCE

by Lucia Reiprich Maloveská

I WOULD NOT ENJOY WRITING “POMPOUS” MUSIC

AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAL RATAJ

by Lucia Reiprich Maloveská

A BREATHING SHAPE

THE KALEIDOSCOPIC MUSIC OF MATOUŠ HEJL

by Matěj Kratochvíl

A FIFTEEN ROUND HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

BETWEEN ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK AND MUHAMMAD ALI

FOR THE CROWN OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE

by Michael Beckerman

CZECH MUSIC EVERYDAY: EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD IN THE SPRING 2026

by Barbora Vacková Gillies