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Karla Hartl author, editor Karla Hartl is founder and chair of the Kapralova Society, a Canadian music society and non-profit publisher established in 1998 in Toronto to promote Czech composer Vitezslava Kapralova and other women in music. Hartl's research has been published in various music journals that include Tempo (Cambridge University Press), Journal of the IAWM (International Alliance for Women in Music), VivaVoce (Frau und Musik), Czech Music Quarterly (Czech Music Fund), Journal of Czech and Slovak Music (Dvorak Society, UK), Opus musicum, and Kapralova Society Journal. Hartl is co-editor of the first English-language monograph on Kapralova, The Kapralova Companion , published in 2011 by Lexington Books (now Bloomsbury Academic) and shortlisted for the 2011 Award of the F.X. Salda Foundation, associated with the Charles University in Prague. She also wrote an introductory chapter in another collective monograph on the composer, Vitezslava Kapralova (1915–1940): Zeitbilder, Lebensbilder, Klangbilder, published by Chronos Verlag in Zurich in 2017. Between 2015 and 2020, Hartl edited a multi-volume collection of Kapralova's correspondence, published by the Kapralova Society, and co-edited the Society's Women in Music Anthology, published in 2021. Hartl is the author of Vitezslava Kapralova: Tematicky katalog skladeb a korespondence s nakladateli (the English edition of the thematic catalog is currently in press), published by the Czech Radio Publishing House in 2020, and of Kauza Kaprálová, published by Nakladatelstvi Klic in 2021. Over the years, Hartl collaborated on several radio documentaries, including the five-hour radio documentary on Kapralova produced by the BBC Radio 3 for the composer's centenary in 2015, and participated in two television documentaries about the composer. In 2025, she wrote a script for a radio series produced by Czech Radio for Kapralova’s 110th anniversary. In 2026, Nakladatelstvi Klic published her bilingual biography of the composer. Books:
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