Ema Destinnová - Zahrada srdce / Eva Děpoltová - soprano

Destinn’s personality inspired poets, writers, painters, sculptors and composers. Among the latter, Strauss, Leoncavallo and Puccini all wrote operas for her. Noted Bohemians who composed for her included Vítězslav Novák, Jindřich Jindřich and Karel Kovařovic. She also wrote music herself. During her student years she had composed the waltz That First Love, which became quite popular and was published – achieving four editions. Another of her songs was introduced as an encore for her very first concert at the Prague Rudolfinum on January 2, 1900 when she appeared for the first and only time with the phenomenal Czech violinist Jan Kubelík.