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History of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and it´s representative concertmasters
Vrabcová, Monika ; Štraus, Ivan (advisor) ; Štraus, Ivan (advisor) ; Tomášek, Jiří (referee) ; Pazdera, Jindřich (referee)
FOK. The notion which have marked the awareness of concert visitors, record collectors or even cinema lovers with an indelible trace in the decades of its existence... A Cinderella who, due to admirable human efforts, passed through necessary imperfections of early youth, turbulent growing up, melancholy of middle age, betrayals of fate and passions of society, and blossomed into mature and spiritual beauty. The ensemble, originally created as a last resort for unemployed musicians, have managed to gain respect on an international scale in the course of time and it united a whole range of the most renowned conductors and soloist names with the memory of cooperation. As a loyal companion of Prague, it has kept being sucked into the vortex of the city's history, celebrating triumphs, being shaken by downfalls, it has been tempered by fate itself as well as it has tempered with the fates of others, it has always represented an enticing challenge for many biographers. It is, therefore, a major theme of the whole range of already published writings. In the area of biographical data described so much in detail, one can hardly produce new, so far unknown information. Nevertheless, I think that a view from the inside, through the optics of my own interpretative experience as an deputy concertmaster, could enrich the available literature by many observations, however subjective they may necessarily be.
The study describes the winding paths of fate, along which the orchestra's history has passed in the course of long years. It illuminates the ambience of pioneer beginnings, the formation of the ensemble under almost garage conditions, it maps out the ?Golden Age?, when favourable circumstances brought the best opportunities for artistic development and for an establishment of our reputation both on the domestic and international scenes. It mentiones in greater detail 3 significant organiser and conductor personalities: Dr. Rudolf Pekárek,
Dr. Václav Smetáček and Jiří Bělohlávek, whose contributions were fundamental to the orchestra's development. In the chapter ?foreign concert tours?, readers will learn about the almost ridiculous influence of political pressures of the communist powers-that-be on the form of guest performances abroad and on the comfort of the musicians. The central points of the work are sections dealing with concertmasters. Some of the personalities, who held this post in the orchestra in the past, reminiscence in an interesting way about their activity in the orchestra FOK and they give us their own opinion about the ideal of a concertmaster. Through the words of his widow, Mrs. Míla Smetáčková, even the legendary chief conductor Václav Smetáček comes to express his opinion; the FOK was his fate for the whole 30 years. The conclusion of the work reveals partly the contemporary situation while anticipating the future and mentions extraordinary dramaturgical and marketing ideas, which help the orchestra to face the adversities of the present age, unkind to its own culture.
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Louis Spohr
Hložková, Hana ; Pazdera, Jindřich (advisor) ; Pazdera, Jindřich (advisor) ; Snítil, Václav (referee) ; Štraus, Ivan (referee)
In 2004 I have participated in " Louis Spohr" Competition in Weimar, which inspired me in choice of the theme for my thesis. Compositions of Louis Spohr are seldom played in our country, and it´s also difficult to find huis name in Czech books. Nevertheless, Louis Spohr gave a lot of new and practical to musicians. He helped to conductors and orchestra with numbers in the score for better orientation and to violinists with a chinrest and new numbering of positions, which is used until today.
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Franz Schubert - Violin works and its inerpretation
Týml, Martin ; Štraus, Ivan (advisor) ; Štraus, Ivan (advisor) ; Messiereur, Petr (referee) ; Panochová, Jarmila (referee)
I focused on the personality of the componist Franz Schubert in my bachelor's thesis. In the introduction I inform the readers about the reason, why I chose to punctual exploration just his violiv work. The first chapter is devoted to the life of the componist. I try to pick up only the most important facts with the view to write this chapter in adequate range. The second chapter, which is divided into sub-chapters contains descriptions of individual Schuberts compositions, its characteristics and short view on its musical form. In the third chapter I devote to the universal questions of interpretation Schuberts compositions at first, then I bring readers my own opinoin on violin playing some of the most popular musicians by means of comparins their recordings. This thesis contains the list of comments as well as photografical supplement.
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Karel Korecký
Kubeček, Jiří ; Kotmel, Bohumil (advisor) ; Štraus, Ivan (referee) ; Pazdera, Jindřich (referee)
The topic of my work is Karel Korecký, an important violin player and violin pedagogue who spend all his life teaching at the music school in Tábor, South Bohemia.In the four chapters I describe Korecký´s life and work too. In the first chapter I concentrate o Korwcký´s life and artistic work in general, which I have a more detailed look at in the next chapters. Firstly his pedagogical work, which was his main life content. Furtermore I mention Koreckýś expressive art and his work as a conductor and composer.
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Chamber music of Antonín Dvořák in unusual instrumentaly combinations
Slimáková, Zuzana ; Pazdera, Jindřich (advisor) ; Štraus, Ivan (referee) ; Kotmel, Bohumil (referee)
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The second most personal specialization of Antonín Dvořák is chambre music filled with lots of thoughtful values and precise composing. I have chosen several pieces to write about I consider highly valuable from an enormous amout of his great work. I am not using the elaborate reviews of his work, the aim of this work is more focused on overal overview of Dvořák?s life when he was working on these pieces of chambre music, on the conditions he lived in, during which the world had changed and also certainly affected his work. We can find slovanian features within the whole Dvořák?s work, it is either in the form of dances, instrumentation or simple features of harmony. I thoroughly searched for these features in the chosen works and these are put into the sample overview. There is also the publishing of the pieces ? publishing notes which attracted me with the original sound and small differences from the author?s handwriting. In the end there is mentioned a few looks at Dvořák?s work by famous authors.
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Phantasy and creativity in the beginning of violin play education
Mašlaňová, Magdaléna ; Štraus, Ivan (advisor) ; Štraus, Ivan (advisor) ; Kotmel, Bohumil (referee) ; Pazdera, Jindřich (referee)
This thesis is engaged in phantasy and creativity in the beginning of violin play education. It is divided into five chapters. The first chapter deals with imagination, phantasy and children´s musical creativity from the psychological point of view, the following chapter contains a discussion on important features of the teacher´s personality. The third chapter is dedicated to some problems within education and to points of co-operation of parents. The following chapter introduces motives and ideas originating from experience of pedagogical practice. The last chapter shows in which way the topic of developing the children phantasy can be presented in compositions for young violinists -beginners. The thesis contains actual demonstrations, examples and the footnotes.
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Treatise on the bow
Kramperová, Iva ; Štraus, Ivan (advisor) ; Štraus, Ivan (advisor) ; Hůla, Pavel (referee) ; Matoušek, Bohuslav (referee)
This bachelor's deals primarity with the development of the bow from its very beginning up to the present-day shape, it presents personages who played a significant role in this development and it also mentions important figures of the contemporary Czech bow - making. The second part of this thesis is focused on the materials used in bow - mafing and includes technical parametersof bows for individual bow instruments.
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