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A Survey of Czech Piano Cycles: from Nationalism to Modernism (1877-1930)
ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: A SURVEY OF CZECH PIANO CYCLES: FROM NATIONALISM TO MODERNISM (1877-1930) Florence Ahn, Doctor of Musical Arts, 2018 Dissertation directed by: Professor Larissa Dedova Piano Department The piano music of the Bohemian lands from the Romantic era to post World War I has been largely neglected by pianists and is not frequently heard in public performances. However, given an opportunity, one gains insight into the unique sound of the Czech piano repertoire and its contributions to the Western tradition of piano music. Nationalist Czech composers were inspired by the Bohemian landscape, folklore and historical events, and brought their sentiments to life in their symphonies, operas and chamber works, but little is known about the history of Czech piano literature. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the unique sentimentality, sensuality and expression in the piano literature of Czech composers whose style can be traced from the solo piano cycles of Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884), Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904), Leoš Janáček (1854-1928), Josef Suk (1874-1935), Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1935) to Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942). A SURVEY OF CZECH PIANO CYCLES: FROM ROMANTICISM TO MODERNISM (1877-1930) by Florence Ahn Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts 2018 Advisory Committee: Professor Larissa Dedova, Chair Professor Bradford Gowen Professor Donald Manildi Professor -
FJB 2019 Programova Skladacka AJ.Indd
7th InternationalInternatioonal Opera and Music Festival Programmee JANÁČEČE JANÁČEKJANÁ 28/ 9 – 16/ 10 BRNOBR 20200 Opera productions 7 p.m. Janáček Theatre 28. 9. Ceremonial opening of the festival LEOŠ JANÁČEK – DESTINY premiere conductor: Marko Ivanović, director: Robert Carsen Živný: Enrico Casari, Philip Sheffield / Míla Válková: Alžběta Poláčková / Míla’s Mother: Szilvia Rálik National Theatre Brno’s Janáček Opera repeat performances 29. 9. and 14. 10., 7 p.m. echoes of the festival 28. 11. and 29. 11., 5 p.m. 1. 10. 7 p.m., Reduta Theatre (Mozart Hall) LEOŠ JANÁČEK – THE DIARY OF ONE premiere of a production based on the author’s stage notes WHO DISAPPEARED tenor: Pavol Breslik, alt: Štěpánka Pučálková piano: Róbert Pechanec with the participation of soloists from National Theatre Brno’s Janáček Opera ensemble JAN JIRASKÝ’S PIANO RECITAL will take place in the first half of the evening Leoš Janáček – In the Mists, Béla Bartók – Allegro barbaro, Kryštof Mařatka – Onyrik, future and exotic tales for piano, Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky – Piano Rag Music 2. 10. 7 p.m., Mahen Theatre LEOŠ JANÁČEK – JENŮFA conductor: Yoel Gamzou, director: Armin Petras Jenůfa: Nadine Lehner Theater Bremen 3. 10. 7 p.m., Janáček Theatre LEOŠ JANÁČEK – JENŮFA premiere conductor: Robert Kružík, director: Claus Guth Kostelnička: Karita Mattila / Jenůfa: Jana Šrejma Kačírková / Laca Klemeň: Jaroslav Březina National Theatre Brno’s Janáček Opera, in cooperation with Royal Opera House (London) repeat performance 5. 10., 7 p.m. 10. 10. 7 p.m., Janáček Theatre RICHARD STRAUSS – SALOME conductor: Balázs Kocsár, director: András Almási-Tóth Salome: Annemarie Kremer Hungarian State Opera (Budapest) 12. -
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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Leoš Janáček and His Works for Piano
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Leoš Janáček and His Works for Piano in Musical, Aesthetic, and Cultural Context MAJOR DOCUMENT SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS for the degree DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS Field of Piano Performance By David Kalhous EVANSTON, ILLINOIS July 2013 2 © Copyright by David Kalhous 2013 All Rights Reserved 3 ABSTRACT In the first part of my document, I will briefly examine Leoš Janáček’s situation as a young artist in the cultural environments of Prague (Janáček studied and taught at the Organ School in the mid-1870s), Leipzig and Vienna (he studied in each city for several months in 1789- 80) and Brno (where he spent his adolescence and then almost his entire adult life). This sketch will provide the background for a discussion of Janáček’s growing interest in folk music, as well as the ideas of pan-Slavism in fin-de-siècle Austria-Hungary, and their impact on his artistic growth before 1900. In the second part, I will discuss Herbartian aesthetics and psychology and their influence on Janáček’s theoretical treatise, The Complete Harmony Manual (first published in 1911), which contains analyses and practical applications of the fundamental features of Janáček’s compositional style. I will focus on his ideas formulated in the decade leading to his first compositions for piano such as atomism (reduction of the motivic material to its lowest terms), layering and stratification (smaller units serving as building block for longer ones), and spletna or twine (which is revealed in melting, overlapping melodic and rhythmic figures). In the third part of the document, I will discuss Janáček’s piano and composition studies and his dream of becoming a piano virtuoso, as well as the possible reasons why this dream remained unfulfilled. -
LEOŠ JANÁČEK Your Inspiration (1854–1928) for the 2018/2019 Concert Season Provozovací Materiál K Pronájmu Performance Material on Hire
LEOŠ JANÁČEK Your inspiration (1854–1928) for the 2018/2019 concert season Provozovací materiál k pronájmu Performance material on hire FOR LARGE ORCHESTRA Adagio (1890) 5’ Schluck und Jau (1928) 12’ 2(flp).1ci.2.2 – 2.2.2.0 – tp – archi incidental music for Gerhard Hauptmann's play 4(4flp).2ci.2clp,clb.3(cfg) – 4.3.3.1 – tp, perc (trgl, tamb picc, cpl, Balada blanická / The Ballad of Blaník (1919) 8’ ptti) (3) – ar – archi, viola d‘amore symphonic poem 3(flp).2.2clb.2 – 3.3.3.1 – tp, cel, xf, perc (cpl) – 2 ar – archi Sinfonietta (1926) 25’ 4(flp).2ci.2(clp)clb.2 – 4.12.3.1, 2 trbb, 2 tbt – tp, perc (cpl, ptti)(1) Dunaj / The Danube (1923–1925) 17’ – ar – archi Symphony for Orchestra H 7741 piano reduction for four hands on sale unfinished symphony reconstructed by Leoš Faltus and Miloš Štědroň NEW 2017 solo S – 4(flp).2ci.3(clb).2cfg – 4.0.3.1 – 4tp – ar – archi, viola Sonáta pro klavír 1. X. 1905 / Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905 (1905) 12’ d'amore arr. by Vojtěch Spurný BA 6861 score on sale (cloth bound) 2.2(ci).2(clb).2 – 4.3.3.1 – tp, perc (tam-tam, trgl, ptti) – ar – archi BA 9501 original piano version on sale Kozáček / Cossack Dance (1899) 2’ Russian folk dance arrangement for orchestra Srbské kolo / Serbian Reel (1900) 2’ 2flp.2.2.2 – 3.2.3.0 – tp, perc (trgl) – archi Serbian folk dance arrangement for orchestra BA 6171 score (Dva tance / Two Dances) on sale 2 fl, 2 fg – archi BA 6171 score (Dva tance / Two Dances) on sale Lašské tance / Lachian Dances (1924) 20’ folk dance arrangement for orchestra Suita / Suite op. -
46Th SEASON PROGRAM NOTES Week 3 July 29
th SEASON PROGRAM NOTES 46 Week 3 July 29 – August 4, 2018 Sunday, July 29, 6 pm two violins. Elegant, graceful, and melodic, had simultaneous premieres in Hamburg and Monday, July 30, 6 pm they are at some moments very difficult (in Cologne on December 4, 1920, when the fact, Leclair’s violin music is in many places composer was all of 23, and in the 1920s JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR (1697 – 1764) so difficult that there is an old legend in Korngold was one of the most admired Sonata in E Minor for Two Violins, musical circles that his real murderer was composers in Europe. Op. 3, No. 5 (1730) a violinist who had become enraged by his And then his career took an unexpected inability to play Leclair’s music). turn. Invited to Hollywood to help score a Jean-Marie Leclair was one of those Writing for two unaccompanied violins film, Korngold found his Romantic idiom endlessly fascinating figures whose lives brings particular challenges for a composer, ideally suited to film music, and when stand apart from the generally quiet who must do without the harmonic Hitler came to power Korngold moved his accounts of composers’ careers. Born in resources of the keyboard. Leclair treats family to Hollywood, where he achieved his Lyon, France, to a family of musicians and the two violins as equals and as melodic greatest success with swashbuckling music lacemakers, Jean-Marie was one of the most instruments here, though occasionally he for Errol Flynn movies like Captain Blood, talented members of that impressive family. -
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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-57357-3 - Janacek Studies Edited by Paul Wingfield Index More information Index Abbate, Carolyn, 119, 263 Ayrey, Craig, 200,243, 245, acoustic scale,249,251,252,253, 265n 254, 256,257, 260 Adelaide, 148, 155 Bach,Johann Sebastian,7,68 Festival,148–52,159,165 ‘Es ist genug’,249 Festival Theatre, 150,159 Bakala,Brˇetislav, 64n,76,176 South Australian Symphony Baker, James,246 Orchestra,150 Bakhtin,Mikhail Mikhailovich,68, State Opera of South Australia 71 (formerly New Opera of South Bardac,Emma (née Moyse) 265 Australia),148,150, 152, 159, Barraqué, Jean, 190–1,192, 193, 199, 160, 161 201, 208–9,210–11,213,215, Adès, Thomas,vii 235, 240–1,243, 254 Allman,Robert, 157 Bartók, Béla, 136n American Musicological Society, Bartoˇs, Frantiˇsek,127n 192 Bauer, Glen, 121n, 207n,245n Anderson, Ross, 149 Beach,David,246n Ansermet, Ernest,232,235 Beckerman, Michael, viii, 3n, 4n, 5, Antokoletz,Elliot,254n 55n, 104n,121n, 144n,183, Aristotle,74 184n,185–6,207n, 221,225n, Aristoxenus, 225–6,227 245n,247n, 248n Armfield,Neil,164,165,166 Beethoven, Ludwig van,64,68,128, Arrighi, Luciana,159 202 Asher, Linda,110n Missa Solemnis, 143 Ashkenazy,Vladimir, 232 Symphony no. 5, 188,262 Auckland,155, 156 Symphony no. 6, 264 Auden,W.H., 8, 77–8 Bekenntnis,59 aufgehobene Tonalität, 247,248, Belfast,166 255 Bellini,Vincenzo, Norma,78 Austin,William,191 Bellman,Jonathan,122n 281 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-57357-3 - Janacek Studies Edited by Paul Wingfield Index More information -
HARMONIA Leoš Janáček: Life, Work, and Contribution
HARMONIA Leoš Janáček: Life, Work, and Contribution Special Issue ▪ May 2013 The Journal of the Graduate Association of Musicologists und Theorists at the University of North Texas Editor Clare Carrasco Associate Editors Abigail Chaplin J. Cole Ritchie Benjamin Dobbs Jessica Stearns Andrea Recek Joseph Turner Typesetters Clare Carrasco Emily Hagen Abigail Chaplin J. Cole Ritchie Benjamin Dobbs Jessica Stearns Jeffrey Ensign Joseph Turner Faculty Advisor for Special Issue Dr. Thomas Sovík GAMuT Executive Committee Andrea Recek, President Benjamin Graf, Vice President Emily Hagen, Secretary Jeffrey Ensign, Treasurer GAMuT Faculty Advisor Dr. Hendrik Schulze http://music.unt.edu/mhte/harmonia HARMONIA Leoš Janáček: Life, Work, and Contribution Special Issue ▪ May 2013 CONTENTS From the Editor 1 Leoš Janáček: Biography 3 JENNIFER L. WEAVER Reconsidering the Importance of Brno's Cultural Milieu for the 8 Emergence of Janáček's Mature Compositional Style ANDREW BURGARD The Originality of Janáček's Instrumentation 22 MILOŠ ORSON ŠTĚDROŇ The Search for Truth: Speech Melody in the Emergence of 36 Janáček's Mature Style JUDITH FIEHLER Does Music Have a Subject, and If So, Where is it? Reflections on 51 Janáček's Second String Quartet MICHAEL BECKERMAN, Keynote Speaker Untangling Spletna: The Interaction of Janáček's Theories and the 65 Transformational Structure of On an Overgrown Path ALEXANDER MORGAN Offstage and Backstage: Janáček's Re-Voicing of Kamila Stösslová 79 ALYSSE G. PADILLA Connecting Janáček to the Past: Extending a Tradition of 89 Acoustics and Psychology DEVIN ILER Childhood Complexity and Adult Simplicity in Janáček’s 96 Sinfonietta JOHN K. NOVAK Leoš Janáček: “The Eternally Young Old Man of Brno” 112 CLARE CARRASCO The Czech Baroque: Neither Flesh nor Fish nor Good Red Herring 121 THOMAS SOVÍK About the Contributors 133 From the Editor: It is my pleasure to introduce this special issue of Harmonia, the in- house journal of the Graduate Association of Musicologists und Theorists (GAMuT) at the University of North Texas. -
Janącek's London Visit
JanàCek's London Visit ZDENKA E. FISCHMANN Janacek and his music are not very well-known in the Anglo-Saxon countries, and have only begun to penetrate there since the end of World War II. Some reasons for this lack of popularity are common to all Czech music, not Janacek alone. To mention the most obvious reasons: there are unequal opportunities for performances in different musical media. Symphonic, instrumental, and chamber music have a readier audience than vocal music in as unfamiliar a language as Czech. Therefore, Dvorak is better known and better represented in the American repertoire than Smetana. The lack of numerous opera houses on the North American continent, as compared with Europe, is another reason why essentially operatic composers like Smetana and Janacek are less often heard. But these are well-known facts. The question of style is subtler and, perhaps, open to discussion, but one might say simply, that Dvorak is more generally Slavic, Smetana most purely Czech, and Janacek much more personal and original; and this has set the order of preference to date, although these composers are now being reevaluated. Lack of in- formation and difficulty to access to Czech-language sources are also serious obstacles to the popularization of Czech music, especially that of Janacek. Nevertheless, Janacek is at last becoming known; his music is played more frequently than before, and the chronological sequence of "Smetana - Dvorak - Janacek" as "The Big Three of Czech music" is beginning to be firmly established. In Janacek's case, achievement of international recognition during his lifetime followed a certain pattern. -
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SUPER AUDIO CD JANÁCˇ EK ORCHESTRAL WORKS, VOL. 1 Suite from ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ Sinfonietta Capriccio Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra EDWARD GARDNER Brno, 1926 Leoš Janáček, with his dog, Čipera, at his house in © T.P. / Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library Leoš Janáček (1854 – 1928) Orchestral Works, Volume 1 Sinfonietta, JW VI / 18 (1926) 23:20 for Orchestra 1 I Allegretto – Allegro – Maestoso 2:07 2 II Andante – Allegretto – Meno mosso – Più mosso – Meno mosso – Più mosso – Più mosso – Maestoso – Più mosso – Maestoso – Tempo I – Allegretto 6:10 3 III Moderato – Con moto – Tempo I – Più mosso – L’istesso tempo – Prestissimo – [Con moto] – Tempo I. Moderato – Più mosso – Meno 5:16 4 IV Allegretto – Adagio – Presto – Adagio – Presto – Meno mosso – Andante – Presto – Prestissimo 3:00 5 V Allegro – Meno mosso – Più mosso – Maestoso – Tempo I – Allegretto – Allegro – Maestoso – Adagio 6:35 3 Capriccio, JW VII / 12 (1926)* 20:08 for piano left hand, flute / piccolo, two trumpets, three trombones, and tenor tuba Ingela Øien flute Gary Peterson trumpet Jon Behncke trumpet Christopher Dudley trombone Øyvind Hage trombone Kjell Erik Husom bass trombone Hans Andreas Kjølberg tenor tuba 6 I Allegro – Vivace – Maestoso – Tempo I – Meno mosso – Presto – Tempo I 4:59 7 II Adagio – Vivo – Tempo I – Vivo, un poco più mosso – Più mosso – Tempo I – Tempo I (Più mosso) – Tempo I – Meno mosso – [Tempo I] – Con moto – Vivo – Tempo I 5:11 8 III Allegretto – Allegro – Allegretto – Tempo I – [Meno] – Meno mosso 3:34 9 IV Andante – [ ] – Tempo I – Maestoso, vivo – Moderato – Presto – Adagio – Maestoso – Prestissimo – Tempo I – Meno mosso – Allegro – Grave 6:10 4 Suite from ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’, JW I / 9 (1922 – 24; suite finally revised 2008) 20:14 for Orchestra Original version prepared by Václav Talich (1883 – 1961), expanded, and with original orchestration restored, by Sir Charles Mackerras (1925 – 2010) 10 I The forest. -
Season 20 Season 2011-2012 the Philadelphia Orchestra The
Season 2020111111----2020202011112222 The Philadelphia Orchestra Sunday, May 1313,, at 3:00 27th Season of Chamber Music ConcertsConcerts————PerelmanPerelman Theater Takemitsu Rain Tree, for vibraphone and two marimbas Christopher Deviney Vibraphone Angela Zator Nelson Marimba Anthony Orlando Marimba Zivkovic Trio per uno, Op. 27, for percussion trio I. Meccanico II. Contemplativo III. Molto energico Christopher Deviney Percussion Angela Zator Nelson Percussion Anthony Orlando Percussion Ravel Alborada del gracioso, for two marimbas ChristopheChristopherr Deviney Marimba Angela Zator Nelson Marimba Intermission Janáček String Quartet No. 1 (“Kreutzer Sonata”) I. Adagio—Con moto II. Con moto III. Con moto—Vivo—Andante—Tempo I IV. Con moto—Adagio—Maestoso Noah Geller Violin Jennifer Haas Violin Renard Edwards Viola John Koen Cello Ravel String Quartet in F major I. Allegro moderato II. Assez vif, très rhythmé—Lent—Tempo I III. Très lent IV. Vif et agité Jennifer Haas Violin Noah Geller Violin Renard Edwards Viola John Koen Cello This program runs approximately 1 hour, 50 minutes. Rain Tree TTTōruTōru Takemitsu Born in Tokyo, October 8, 1930 Died there, February 20, 1996 The Oriental influence is not new in art music. Composers from Mozart to Debussy and, more recently, Olivier Messiaen, Henry Cowell, and John Cage often turned to Asia as an exotic alternative, or a corrective remedy, to the established traditions of European culture. But these were, of course, Western composers appropriating the gestures, textures, and sounds of Asian music. The first Asian composer to bridge the cross-cultural gap from the other direction was the Japanese musician Tōru Takemitsu, who paved the way for the later “New Wave” of Asian composers in the West during the 1980s and ’90s. -
CZECH-LIST a Selection of the Best in Czech Music
CZECH-LIST A selection of the best in Czech music Czechoslovakia (now known as the Czech Republic) may have experienced bumps in its development as a nation, but one aspect of its cultural soul has proved steadfast over the centuries: the quality of the music of its classical composers. You’ll find the works of established favourites – Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Bohuslav Martinů, Josef Suk – alongside less familiar names from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries that invite you to explore unknown treasures from the country’s rich heritage – Johann Baptist Vaňhal, Jiří Antonín Benda, Zdeněk Fibich and Erwin Schulhoff, among many others. Label Cat. No. Composer Title Featured Artists UPC Naxos Ariane Pfister-Benda, Violin / Josef Suk, Viola / 1 Naxos 8.553994 BENDA, František (1709–1786) Violin Concerto (+BENDA, J.A.) Christian Benda, Cello / Prague CO / Suk CO / 0730099499422 Christian Benda Ariane Pfister-Benda, Josef Suk, Violin / Suk CO / 2 Naxos 8.553902 BENDA, František (1709–1786) Violin Concertos in D Major and D Minor (+BENDA, J.J.) 0730099490221 Christian Benda Hans-Joachim Berg, Violin / 3 Naxos 8.572307 BENDA, František (1709–1786) Violin Sonatas Nos. 10, 14, 23, 28 and 32 747313230778 Naoko Akutagawa, Harpsichord Ariane Pfister-Benda, Josef Suk, Violin / Suk CO / 4 Naxos 8.553902 BENDA, Jan Jirí (1713–1752) Violin Concertos in G Major (+BENDA, F.) 0730099490221 Christian Benda Brigitte Quadlbauer, Hertha Schell, Peter Uray, 5 Naxos 8.553345 BENDA, Jirí Antonín (1722–1795) Ariadne auf Naxos / Pygmalion [Digital Exclusive] 0730099434522 Narrator / Prague CO / Christian Benda Brigitte Quadlbauer, Hertha Schell, Peter Uray, 6 Naxos 8.553346 BENDA, Jirí Antonín (1722–1795) Medea [Digital Exclusive] 0730099434621 Narrator / Prague CO / Christian Benda 7 Naxos 8.553408 BENDA, Jirí Antonín (1722–1795) Sinfonias Nos.