Tábor

The penultimate poem of the Má vlast cycle is Tábor. It depicts — through the use of the chorale Kdož jste Boží bojovníci (Ye who are God’s warriors) — the Taborites, who were the most militant followers of the ‘heretic’ Jan Hus (a Wycliffian predecessor of Luther and the Reformation.)

Egon Schiele’s Self Portrait as Pierrot ushers us into the darker side of the commedia dell’arte: the world of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Debussy’s Cello Sonata.

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