Check the listing for details. RAFAEL KUBELIK Conductor & ALEXANDER MOYZES Composer dual signed program 1938. Listed at 75.00 USD. 7 page autographed program by the legendary Czech conductor and the Slovak composer whose work was featured on the program, Liberec, Czech Republic, May 28, 1938. Kubelik led the Czech Philharmonic in a concert including Moyzes "Janosik" for orchestra op. 21 (1934), Martinu's Serenade for Chamber Orchestra, Wagner's prelude to "Tristan und Isolde" and Dvorak's 7th Symphony op. 70. Early Kubelik!Rafael Kubelik (1914-1996) was a Czech conductor, composer and violinistKubelik had one of the most storied conducting careers of the 20th Century. A man of music and conscious he rebelled against the Nazi’s and the Communists. The son of violinist Jan Kubelik, like his Father and siblings was a violinist by training and also an accompanist. He left the Prague Conservatory and in 1933 and made his Czech Philharmonic debut as a conductor in 1934. From 1935-1936 he accompanied his Father on the piano during his tour of the United States. In 1936 he was made a conductor of the Czech Philharmonic. In 1939 he was appointed Music Director of the Brno Opera which lasted until the Nazi’s shut the company down in 1941. With the drain of talent in Prague he was brought back in 1941 to become Principal Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic. He had to hide in the Czech countryside from the Nazi’s in 1944 after he refused to give the Nazi salute and conduct Wagner. After the War was over in 1945 he was once again the Principal Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic and a founder of the Prague Spring Festival. He remained there until 1948; when the Communists took over the Country he left defecting on a regular conducting gig at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1950 he was appointed Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he was forced out in 1953 as the Board felt he was leading too many contemporary works. In 1955 he was named Music Director of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden where he remained until 1958. From 1969 to 1979 he was the Music Director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony and for a year under Goran Gentele 1973-1974 he was the Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera. The balance of his career he worked with major orchestras throughout the world as a guest conductor. After the Velvet Revolution in 1990, Kubelik did return and both conduct and record with the Czech Philharmonic.Alexander Moyzes (1906 – 1984) was a Slovak composerMoyzes was born into a musical family, his father was the composer and pedagogue Mikuláš Moyzes. He entered the Prague Conservatory in 1925, where he studied organ, conducting and composition. He graduated in 1929 and went on to study in the master class of composer Vítězslav Novák, from which he graduated in the following year, His graduation piece was his Overture for Orchestra, Opus 10. It was Novák who directed his attention to Slovak music, the source of his inspiration.In 1929, Moyzes was appointed to the teaching staff of the Music and Drama Academy for Slovakia in Bratislava. He became professor of composition at the Bratislava Conservatory in 1941 and spent a number of years as principal music advisor to Radio Bratislava, until compelled to resign in 1948. When the Bratislava Music Academy was founed he was appointed Composition Professor, where he taught no less than three generations of Slovak composers. He headed the Academy as Director from 1965 until 1971, and over the years undertook many important functions in the musical life of his country. He died in Bratislava. With Eugen Suchoň and Ján Cikker, Alexander Moyzes is considered one of the three leading composers of his generation in Slovakia. He succeeded in creating a style of composition that was thoroughly Slovak in inspiration, yet nevertheless took account of contemporary trends in European music, a synthesis that he was to consolidate in his later years.OrchestraDown the River Váh, Op. 26 (1935)Pohronie Dances, Op. 43 (1950)Gemer Dances, Op. 51 (1956)Violin Concerto, Op. 53Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 31 (1929, rev. 1937)Symphony No. 2 in A minor, Op. 16 (1932)Symphony No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 18 (1942)Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, Op. 38 (1947, rev. 1957)Symphony No. 5 in F major, Op. 39 (1947–48)Symphony No. 6 in E major, Op. 44 (1951)Symphony No. 7, Op. 50 (1954–55)Flute Concerto, Op. 61[2]Symphony No. 8, Op. 64 (1968–69)Symphony No. 9, Op. 69 (1971)Symphony No. 10, Op. 77 (1977–78)Symphony No. 11, Op. 79Symphony No. 12, Op. 83ChamberFour String Quartets (Op. 8, 66, 83 and without opus number)Piano Jazz Sonata for two pianos, op. 14 Harmonie Autographs and Music, Inc.Music Antiquarian & AppraiserNew York, New York