Czech & Slovak Composers

[Ferruccio]

Oder: "Was Alfor tut, das ist wohlgetan"! (BWV 98-100)

Das stimmt!!

Und wie !!

[alfor]

...I have a set of Preludes by Kabelac that are quite brilliant!

op. 30?? (as performed on youtube by a Czech pianist).

[alfor]

Thank you very much for feedback!!!

[fleubis]

I'm getting pretty confused here!

[alfor]

I'm getting pretty confused here!

Would you mind telling me the reason for your confusion??

[alfor]

České týdnů (9):

To all 498 members of pianophilia:

Frantisek MUSIL (1852-1908)
was a Czech organist, „Regens chori“, teacher and composer.
He studied piano with Josef Proksch (Smetana's teacher).
Most famous as organist and improviser.

Somewhat naive pieces of the older Czech
romantic school (Fibich, Suk, Novak).

gas

Musil Poeticke skladbicky.pdf

[fleubis]

Less confused now that Google translate helped with the Deutch! However, I remain much perplexed over F.A. Gevaert's "Nouveau Traite D'Instrumentation" which has never been translated into English, and not speaking French you can imagine how much fun I'm having. However, I did find out that C3 and C4 changed octaves from Gavaert's time into our current system in 1939, which still not everyone can agree upon. Fortunately, this issue never comes up in piano music.

For solace, I'll play Kabalec, Boldi, Musil and Suchy today!

[alfor]

České týdnů (10):

Frantisek SCHÄFER was an excellent pianist and a ...*** composer.
***Please fill in your own opinion - if you happen to have one!

As a pianist he played contemporary music, but these Preludes
are at the most very mildly contemporary
(the beginning of No. 2 could have been written by Poulenc, though).

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Schaefer Preludia op.8.pdf

[fleubis]

Frantisek Schaefer--yes mildly contemporary but with some interesting ideas scattered here and there (I tend to say that too often, methinks). I had the most fun with #10. If he'd come up wit a few more names, he could have called this a Suite instead of a set of preludes.

[alfor]

České týdnů (11):

I previously posted a couple of other works by FOERSTER

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Foerster Osenicka Suita.pdf