"Visiting Mongolian Friends with a Baton": hosting of the Czechoslovak composer and conductor Tibor Andrašovan in Mongolia in 1958
2018
Abstract
This paper focuses on the sojourn of the outstanding Czechoslovak composer of Slovak origin Tibor Andrašovan (1917-2001) in Mongolia. He was sent to work with the newly founded State philharmonic orchestra as a conductor in 1958 as part of a program of cultural cooperation between Czechoslovakia and Mongolia.
Based on the archival materials, newspaper articles and family archives, this paper traces the engagement, almost forgotten today, of T. Andrašovan in Mongolia in the context of the formation of classical music in Mongolia as well as in the context of the first decade of Czechoslovak-Mongolian cultural cooperation.