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This article offers a close-up view of musical politics during the early and most repressive years of the Czechoslovak communist regime. Forming the focus is Miroslav Barvík (1919-1998), the top apparatchik in music at this time. Examined here are the political forces that gave Barvík the authority to create and control a highly centralized musical arena to implement Soviet ideas. Given extensive treatment is his 1950 speech to the Union of Czechoslovak Composers entitled The Composers Go with the People. What on the surface level was a call for musicians to join the socialist struggle was in reality an instruction for them to prove themselves ideologically. Barvík’s speech reveals the story of Czech music according to the communists and shows which musicians were favored or disenfranchised. Barvík is virtually unknown internationally and even in today’s Czech Republic, he is somewhat forgotten. Thus the article also considers the forces that led to his neutralization as the strong-man of the Czech music scene as well as the circumstances that account for his disappearance from the Czech historical conscience.

Sovietizing Czechoslovak Music: The "Hatchet-Man" Miroslav Barvik and his Speech The Composers Go with the People