Summary Petr Eben’s large-scale cycle for solo organ Faust (1979/80) is the topic of this article. Faust is a programmatic work that is based on incidental music the composer wrote for a stage production of Goethe’s ...

John Amos Comenius (1592-1670; known in Czech as Jan Ámos Komensky´), was a bishop and spiritual leader of the Bohemian Brethren (Unitas Fratrum), a grouping of Czech Protestants dating back to the fifteenth century. ...

There exists a general opinion that organ beginners should have basic keyboard skills before organ tuition may commence. This viewpoint is explicitly confirmed by various organ pedagogues and beginners’ methods. For ...

The Biblical book of Job has long been recognised as one of the great works of world literature, even independently of its specific significance within the Judeo-Christian tradition. It deals with the question of theodicy: ...