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Bartok´s piano concertos
Vrána, Tomáš ; KLÁNSKÝ, Ivan (advisor) ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (referee)
This thesis focuses on the three piano concertos by Béla Bartók. It is aimed not only at the composer´s works for piano and orchestra, but also at the life of this artist and his personality.
Each of the three piano concertos has its own chapter. At the beginning, I add a few pieces of composer´s life for better orientation of the reader in a given topic and historical events of that time as well.
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Sibelius: legacy of finnish music
Valentová Handzušová, Bára ; KLÁNSKÝ, Ivan (advisor) ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (referee)
This master's thesis is dedicated to life and work of the most famous finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The work follows composers life from youth to the old age in Ainola, his composition and legacy. There are also basic information about evolution of Finland and development of music history, including significant music events and finish music education.
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W. A. Mozart - Piano concerto in d minor
Pawlowská, Marie ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (advisor) ; MALÝ, František (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the 1st movement of the Piano concerto in d minor written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and – concerning this analysis – to find out what the main elements of this music are. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is not only to analyse the composition, but also to discover basic information about it to help interprets play the concerto in the right way.
After the opening part, that concerns with Mozart’s works in general and the extraordinariness of the concerto in d minor, there is a vast analysis of the individual musical elements, which contains generalization of the previously described musical speech concerning each particular musical element.
The final part stems from the finding of the analysis and describes how to apply them into the interpretation. The author also uses four recordings to analyse and compare them to stress the previously declared statements. In conclusion the author generalizes all the achieved pieces of knowledge, theoretical as well as practical, to enable their utilization in practice.
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The Personality of Pierre-Laurent Aimard And His Influence On Post-war Piano Interpretation
Šupák, Michal ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (advisor) ; MALÝ, František (referee)
This thesis focuses on the personality of Pierre-Laurent Aimard – a pianist, who enjoys an internationally celebrated career and who is one of the most significant figures in the piano music of the second half of the twentieth century. He is closely linked to composers of Europe’s post-war avant-garde. The goal of the thesis is to depict his artistic life, his thoughts and opinions and their value for a contemporary pianists and also to describe his contribution by closely collaborating with leading composers of post-war era. The thesis also contains an analysis and comparison of Aimard's selected recordings of Gyorgy Ligeti's pieces, which were prepared in personal collaboration with the author.
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Life and work of contemporary composer and pianist Adam Skoumal
Suchánková, Anežka ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (advisor) ; MALÝ, František (referee)
In this B.A. thesis, life and work of a Czech contemporary composer and pianist Adam Skoumal are discussed.The artist is introduced to its readers from his very musical onset making his way up until now. The thesis focuses on his musical language and style together with the description of his piano, violin, chamber, vocal and even children`s pieces work. Being also a piano virtuoso, his two piano compositions are thoroughly analysed - namely Variations on a folk song and Concerto no. 2 for piano and string orchestra. On these pieces the problematics of contemporary artists writing in traditional style and therefore of unwanted borrowing of older works and also the question of arrangements after being introduced to the public are all demonstrated.
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Women at the piano
Ochmanová, Kateřina ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (advisor) ; KRAJNÝ, Boris (referee)
The bachelor thesis Women at the piano is supposed to provide a summary about the evolution of womens position in society, a short insight into the lives of several particular piano interprets from the past and present with a special focus on their personal evidence and stimulate readers thinking about womens individual qualities they bring to the art in this uniforming period.
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Francis Poulenc - Piano work
Františová, Karolína ; KASÍK, Martin (advisor) ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (referee)
My bachelor’s thesis titled "Francis Poulenc - piano work" is divided into
three main chapters. The first chapter focuses on the composer's life in the
contemporary context. The project also covers mention artistic tendencies in
France during the 20th century and the associated art group Les Six . The second
chapter briefly describes Poulenc's piano language, its expressive and technical
resources. I deal mainly with individual works, their history, complements the
Czech translation of French titles at the complex. For some enclose a
recommendation for the degree of maturity of the piano are determined. In the
third chapter, I mention a chronological overview of solo, chamber and orchestral
piano works . Using this job, I would like to draw attention to the piano works of
Francis Poulenc , which is not broached in concert programs on Czech stages.
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Ida Kelarová - life and contribution to the musical culture of the gipsy
Kačo, Tomáš ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (advisor) ; MALÝ, František (referee)
The thesis describes the life of Ida Kelarova and captures part of her lifelong activity. It is not possible to show all of the important things that mrs. Kelarova hase done, so I will focus on those that I witnessed personally or those that I was part of. It is great honour to weite my work about mrs. Kelarova especially because I had the opportunity to work directly with her. Majority of this paper comes from personal discussions and experiences.
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The rise of the piano art in China
Tian, Haochen ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (advisor) ; KRAJNÝ, Boris (referee)
This thesis focuses on the emergence, development and characteristics of the piano art in China. Piano art as one of the kind of art have been developed in China for about one century, but its development was very tangled and complicated. The author divides the whole process of the development of the piano art in China into four important phases. It focuses on the period from the first contact of piano art with China until the current period of apparent presperity. The thesis does not exclude the period of the Cultural Revolution, but it handles the political issues only marginally.
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