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Music

Main article:
Music of Czechia

Czech music - throughout more than one thousand years old history - can be considered to have been beneficial in both the

modern classical
music.

Czech hand-written Jistebnice hymn book from around 1430

History

The musical tradition of Czechia arose from first church hymns, whose first evidence is suggested at the break of

Saint Wenceslas" ("Svatý Václave") from around 1250[3]
Its roots can be found in the 12th century and it still belongs to the most popular religious songs to this day. In 1918, the song was discussed as one of the possible choices for the national anthem.

Firts documented personalities and records appear in 14th century, following the founding of a department of

Hussite battle hymn "Ktož jsú boží bojovníci
" (Ye Who Are Warriors of God).

Composer Antonín Dvořák - statue in Prague

Personalities

The wealth of musical culture in Czechia lies in the long-term high-culture classical music tradition during all historical periods, especially in the

traditional folk music of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Since the early eras of artificial music, Czech musicians and composers have often been influenced by genuine folk music (it has been recognized already in records of Czech music since 14th - 15th century) and dances (e.g. polka
which originated in Bohemia).

The most important musicians of Czech renaissance were

František Ignác Antonín Tůma and the most important, a composer of crowning Baroque epoch Jan Dismas Zelenka, great personality of outstanding innovative and next eras anticipating harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint[5]
.

Czech composers significantly contributed to the birth and development of

bitonality and polyrhythm, derived often from folk music, directly anticipates that of composers of modern era far in advance[7]
.

As the golden age of Czech music can be considered the period between second half of 19th century and first half of 20th century, including later Romanticism and

microtonal music Alois Hába
, has to be mentioned.

In high modern era Miloslav Kabeláč and Petr Eben.

Rudolfinum Concert Hall in Prague, one of the main venues of Prague Spring Festival

Among the most famous musicians and interpreters are violinists

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Panocha Quartet
and many others.

Events

Already in

Wenceslas II organised the first major musical event in the country, that was to draw the attention of all of Europe. He held a musical competition in Prague, inviting the most famous European musicians and the king also took part personally, as a minstrel[10]. The most famous music festival in the country of today is Prague Spring International Music Festival of classical music, founded 1946
, a permanent showcase for outstanding performing artists, symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles of the world.



Stamic Quartet

The Stamic Quartet is a Czech string quartet. The ensemble is is named after composer Jan Václav Antonín Stamic, because both violinists of original line-up were born in the same town as him, in the East Bohemian town Havlíčkův Brod. String quartet was was founded in 1985. The ensemble is focused on performing compositions of Czech classical and foreign composers from classicism to modern music. In recent times they are also concentrated on other works of chamber music in cooperation with other musicians.

The original line-up: B. Matoušek - violin, J. Kekula - violin, J. Pěruška - viola, V. Leixner - violoncello. Contemporary line-up: Jindřich Pazdera - violin, Josef Kekula - violin, Jan Pěruška - viola, Petr Hejný - cello[11]

Category:Czech string quartets Category:Musical ensembles


Chronological list of Czech classical composers

List of classical music composers born or trained in

Czechia
in chronological order by periods.

Renaissance

Baroque


Classical era

Romantic

Modern


Contemporary

Active in the Twentieth Century and/or Early Twenty-First

Hanuš Bartoň (1960-) Sylvie Bodorová (1954-) Petr Eben (1929-2007) Leoš Faltus (1937-) Vladimír Franz (1959-) Vladimír Hirsch (1954-) Ilja Hurník (1922-) Karel Husa (1921-) Jan Klusák (1934-) Petr Kofroň (1955-) Marek Kopelent (1932-) Ivana Loudová (1941-) Ivo Medek (1956-) Jiří Pauer (1919-2007) Alois Piňos (1925-2008) Miroslav Pudlák (1960-) Michal Rataj (1975-) Milan Slavický (1947-2009) Martin Smolka (1959 -) Miloš Štědroň (1942-) Antonín Tučapský (1928-) Emil Viklický (1948-)


Note

Standard characteristics of classical music periods need to be taken with a reserve, because some composers either composed music that stylistically belongs somehow ahead of their time (e.g. Jan Ladislav Dussek), or their works content compositions written in more than one style typical for the period (e.g.František Ignác Tůma, Josef Suk or Leoš Janáček), alternatively their music simply does not have features, which can be significant for it (for example, Antonín Dvořák himself was a romantic-classicist synthetist, so he does not have a perfect place in the list) or their styles are eclectic (this is especially true for contemporary music). Only periods of modern and contemporary music match to a certain degree time classification, because they contain a lot of compositional systems, incl. "neo-" or "retro-" styles, and according to it, their denominations are more (contemporary) or less (modern) only chronological.


Czech Composers, classical

  1. ^ Elizabeth A. Haas: Czech Music History
  2. ^ Dějiny české hudby v obrazech (History of Czech music in pictures); in Czech
  3. ^ The chronicles of Beneš Krabice of Veitmil - the hymn "Svatý Václave" mentioned there as old and well-known in the end of the 13th century [1]
  4. ^ Anthology of Czech music [2]
  5. ^ Thompson, Damian (27 July 2013). "Why has nobody heard of the miraculous Czech composer Zelenka?". The Spectator. Retrieved 2013-07-27.
  6. ^ Ron Drummond's articles on Reicha [3]
  7. ^ Václav Jan Sýkora. Preface to an edition of 36 Fugues for Piano, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1973, #19117–119
  8. ^ Beckerman n.d.e.
  9. ^ Sehnal and Vysloužil (2001), p. 175 (in Czech)
  10. ^ Czech Music History / EU 2009 [4]
  11. ^ [5] Stamic Quartet official webpage
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