Miloslav Kabeláč (1908 – 1979) was a prominent Czech composer and conductor. Miloslav Kabeláč belongs to the foremost Czech symphonists, whose work can be compared with Antonín Dvořák or Bohuslav Martinů. New ways of expression presentated by Kabeláč in his eight symphonies and the perspectives opened by him to modern understanding and conception of this traditional genre have not yet penetrated our general conscience in a way corresponding to their importance and impact. In the totalitarian period Kabeláč's work found itself on the periphery of official attention and was performed only sporadically and in a limited choice of compositions.
We only know Kabelac from the Janacek/Martinu coupling on the Supraphon Ancerl edition, but we are intrigued to note that he was born in a year which Mr Grew has mentioned often (how, being born in such a year, did he escape the effects of the dust particles, we wonder?) and died in the year in which we ourselves were born.
Does anyone know the date? If it turns out to have been 5 November we shall find this even more remarkable!
