Karel Reiner
Karel Reiner (27 June 1910 – 17 October 1979) was a
Life
He was born in
Style
Reiner's musical output was created during fifty years, since 1928/9 to 1979, and was firmly connected with the political situation in Czechoslovakia in the 20th century.[5] His first artistic period was influenced by his teachers and models (Alois Hába, Josef Suk, Emil František Burian, and Erwin Schulhoff), it was part of Czech artistic avant-garde, and it was later rejected by communists as formalism.[6] After the critique of the party he was forced to find new, more traditional and conservative ways of composing. This period lasted roughly to 1960. The last period (1960–79) is considered the most artistically valuable. The musical trends in Czechoslovakia were freer in that time and Reiner thus was able to show his expressive musical thinking. He composed almost in all musical categories, created vocal works (songs, choirs), instrumental works (for solo instrument, chamber, symphonic), vocal-instrumental works (cantata, opera), film music, incidental music, composed popular dance songs at the start of his career, and was inspired also by jazz and folk music. He composed for almost all instruments, including bass clarinet, dulcimer, solo drums and for baritone saxophone.
A re-interpretation of songs from the Květěný kůň cycle and a performance from the Terezín ghetto Staročeská Esther was prepared by Aida Mujačič.
Selected works
- 9 veselých improvizací (9 Gladsome Improvisations) for piano (1929)
- 5 jazzových studií (5 Jazz Studies) for piano (1930)
- Suite for large orchestra (1931)
- Koncertantní suita (Concertant Suite) for wind instruments and percussion (1947)
- Symphony No.1 (1959)
- Symfonická předehra (Symphonic Overture) for large orchestra (1963)
- Trio for flute, bass clarinet and percussion (1964)
- Concerto for bass clarinet, string orchestra and percussion (1965)
- Hudba (Music) for 4 clarinets (1965)
- Koncertantní suita (Concertant Suite) for large orchestra (1967)
- Concertino for bassoon, wind instruments and percussion (1969)
- Repliky (Replicas), Trio for flute, viola and harp (1973)
- Allocuzioni per orchestra da camera (1975)
- Sloky (Verses) for viola and piano (1975)
- Tři symfonické věty (3 Symphonic Movements) for orchestra (1978)
Notes
- ^ All About Jewish Theatre – Come to the Thereisenstadt cabaret Archived 2007-11-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kuna, p. 167
- ^ Kuna, p. 382
- ^ Kuna, p. 378
- ^ Kuna, p. 379-380
- ^ Kuna, p. 379
References
- Kuna, Milan (2008). Dvakrát zrozený. Život a dílo Karla Reinera (in Czech). Prague: H+H. ISBN 978-80-7319-078-1.
- Vysloužil, Jiří (2001). Hudební slovník pro každého II (in Czech). Vizovice: Lípa. ISBN 80-86093-23-9.
- Šormová, Eva (1973). Divadlo v Terezíně 1941/1945 (in Czech). Památník Terezín.
External links
- Basic information, references
- List of works at the Czech Music Fund
- Re-interpretations of Aida Mujačič
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