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Dmitry Shostakovich: Piano Trio Nr. 2 e-minor, op. 67
Škodová, Judita ; PETRÁŠ, Miroslav (advisor) ; ERICSSON, Mikael (referee)
The master thesis concerns with the Trio for violin, cello and piano Nr. 2 e minor by one of the most significant Russian composers of all times – Dmitry Shostakovich. Presenting a brief biography of the composer, the thesis continues introducing Ivan Ivanovich Sollertinsky, a very interesting personality of the Soviet cultural life and also one of the closest friends and colleagues of Shostakovich, to whom he dedicated his Trio Nr. 2. Following, there is a general introduction of the circumstances that influenced the composer’s life in those days, therefore also his musical language and the final shape of his Trio Nr. 2, including the circumstances of its premiere and also the most significant performers of this piece. The greatest part of the thesis concerns with an overal analysis of all the four movements of the composition from both technical and expressional point of view.
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Kosice Quartet and its interpretation of Slovak works
Ivanecká, Jana ; PETRÁŠ, Miroslav (advisor) ; STRAŠIL, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the work of Kosice Quartet (Quartette Cassoviae), that existed from 1973 till 2014. Frequent interpretation of pieces written by Slovak composers made a significant contribution to spread Slovak classical music at homeland and abroad. Parts of the thesis are: basic information about quartet, their concert activities in Slovakia and abroad, also review about achieved rewards and analysis of String Quartet №2 written by Joseph Podprocky, which belongs to the most favorite pieces of the ensemble. The author collected information from journal articles, websites, program brochures, also from private archives and interviews with members of the Quartet – Milan Cervenak and Milan Kyjovsky.
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D. Shostakovich - Works for piano trio
Štěpánek, Matěj ; PETRÁŠ, Miroslav (advisor) ; BERNÁŠEK, Václav (referee)
The goal of the thesis is to explore the piano trio repertoire of D. Shostakovich. The autor of the thesis is using selected historical sources as well as modern publications. Piano Trio n. 2 - e minor is accented for its significant place among the most appreciated pieces of general piano trio repertoire. He is trying to cover the problematics of narrative interpretation of Shostakovich musical language, and is also mentioning choosen historical relevant data - childhood of the composer, his studies, first carrier rises and falls, the times of WWII. Special attention is paid to the relationship between I. I. Sollertinsky, to whom the Trio n. 2 is dedicated. There is also included the mention about autenticity and contribution of Volkov'sTestimony. Chapter two is dedicated solely to Piano trio n. 1 and Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok. Rest of the thesis is devoted to Second Piano Trio, especially to the fourth movement and its pivotal role in the understanding of the piece.
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Gregor Piatigorsky
Špaček, Petr ; PETRÁŠ, Miroslav (advisor) ; STRAŠIL, Tomáš (referee)
In this Master disertation, the author talks about the life and career of a legendary virtuoso cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Gregor Piatigorsky is one of the most important figures in the history of cello. Piatigorsky has not only achieved an incredible solo career, but as a teacher he also raised a large number of great cellists and cello teachers of today. Among his most famous pupil are Mischa Maisky, Steven Isserlis or Raphael Wallfish. Disertation also includes authors own experience with teaching of Laurence Lesser, who was an assistant of Piatigorsky for almost 7 years, and whose style of teaching is nearly the same as Piatigorsky's.
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Development of the interpretative musical schools from 18th century- French Horn in Bohemia, Germany , France
Švadlenková, Jana ; DIVOKÝ, Zdeněk (advisor) ; PETRÁŠ, Miroslav (referee)
My work deals with the development of methodologies for French horn. I present the original sources and analyze importatnt methodist like Domnich, Duvernoy, Fröhlich, Farkas and Kaucký. Moreocer, I mention successful personalities of pedagogy . I translated materials that have not been published in Czech language yet and thereby created an overview of already forgotten and for hornplayers important books. Than, chapters from selected schools are compared with basic attributes of hornplaying. I mapped the methods of conterporary teaching at prestigious music schools in France, Germany and Prague. I created a list of issued schools, etudes and methodologies for French Horn wich available in Europe.
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Ard international cello competition
Zvěřina, Jan ; PETRÁŠ, Miroslav (advisor) ; KAŇKA, Michal (referee)
Master theses of Jan Zvěřina titled " ARD International Cello Competition - History and Winners " is devoted to this prestigious competition describing for example it´s history, currentrules and prices. In addition, by form of a semi-structured interview this theses intermediates experiences and memories of three winners of such competition, namely Wolfgang Boettcher, Michal Kaňka and Julia Steckel. It is the aim of such interviews to determine whether there is any interconnection in theirv individual successes. For this reason, the interviews focus mainly on the preperation of cellists before actual competition, but they bring also experiences from the actual competition and answer the question what ARD competition brought these winners.
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Vladimír Sommer: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1979)
Škodová, Judita ; PETRÁŠ, Miroslav (advisor) ; STRAŠIL, Tomáš (referee)
Vladimír Sommer belongs to the most interesting and significant personalities among Czech composers of the 20th century, his work has not been performed very frequently, though. His Concerto for Cello and Orchestra is a piece almost not known by Czech cellists, which was the greatest motivation to dedicate this thesis to this composition. The first part of the dissertation brings the composer?s biography, a brief characteristic of his work (including a more detailed view on his most important pieces) and a complete list of his compositions. The key part of the thesis is introduced by the history of creation and performing of the piece also being compared with other Sommer?s compositions and presented in the context of his work in general. Then there comes the analysis of each of the three movements of the Concerto and a conclusion of the analysis. The next part presents author?s subjective view on the interpretation of the recording the thesis is based on. In conclusion, there is described the benefit of the work on the dissertation to the author, same as the benefit it would hopefuly bring to other readers.
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Marek Jerie - violoncellista and educator
Zemen, Jan ; PETRÁŠ, Miroslav (advisor) ; BERNÁŠEK, Václav (referee)
This thesis details the recognized and recpected personalities of Marek Jerie, which draws from the perspective of teaching and interpretative operation,but also closer to him as a person and a prominent figure of cultural events.Aside leaves or inconvenience caused by the previous regime and his departure into exile.Trough the work is also very close encounter with leading personalities of the world´s Cello ( Bohus Heran, Pablo Cassals, Andrér Navara, Mstislav Rostropovich ad.).With their views on the interpretation and art in general is their nature. Also appears in many of the links and interconnections struktures of world of the art. A very important point of this paper is a summary view of Jerieho interpretation and recording activities resting on the study of contemporary international critics. In addition to solo action Jerie was a member of several chamber ensembles ( Guarneri Trio Prague, Duo Bohuslava Martinů, and others.). In detail, the work in this regard focuses on Jerie´s artistic effect with the Guarneri Trio Prague, of which member is over twenty five years. One of the last chapters look at his teaching "laboratory ". His pupils are successfully applied worldwide, and its methods are widely recognized world wide cello public.
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