Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940) - czech music composer and conductor, daughter of composer Vaclav Kapral, student of many significant names. Eventhough she died very young of TBC, she had composed more than 40 exceptional compositions that were and still are very appreciated. The book offers you Two Choruses for Women's Voices, op.17 (Potpoliš and Vězdička) from 1936-1938 which are the subject of our first ever complete edition. The two choruses, set to texts of Ondřej Přikryl, which Kaprálová adopted from the second edition of his Hanácky pesničke, were in part composed concurrently with the cantata Ilena. Both the cantata and the choruses are still rooted in the post-romantic style which Kaprálová was already abandoning at the time. Perhaps it was the difficulty of this transition, combined with the necessity of learning the advanced technique of choral composition in preparation for her cantata, which led the composer to modify these works repeatedly. At the beginning of 1938 she arrived at a final version ready to be entrusted to her father for performance and worthy of an opus number.