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J. A. Štěpán and his Music for Harpsichord from the Musical Archive in Kremsier
Žďárská, Petra ; MRÁZKOVÁ, Giedre (advisor) ; Willi, Barbara Maria (referee)
This thesis focuses on the interpretation of harpsichord sonatas written by Josef Antonín Štěpán / Joseph Anton Steffan (1726–1797), who was an important figure in Viennese musical life of the eighteenth century. His works influenced a large number of his contemporaries, including Joseph Haydn, Jan Křtitel Vaňhal, Leopold Koželuh, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His compositional procedures departed from period conventions: a number of his sonatas and concertos for keyboard instruments begin with a slow introduction to an opening fast movement; he experimented with one-movement forms (sonatas, capriccios); in 1778 he published the very first collection of Germans songs with piano accompaniment in Vienna. The foundation for his music is his detailed knowledge of counterpoint and thoroughbass practice, and he draws on influences from Italian music, Czech folk music, the Gallant style and the Sensitive style. In his late works, he even arrives at a Pre-Romantic style. It is incomprehensible that he has nearly been forgotten in spite of his fame in his own day.
In an attachement there is enclosed a critical edition of Steffan´s sonatas, PicŠ. 19–21 issued in ARTA (April 2017).
Key words:
Joseph Anton Steffan / Josef Antonín Štěpán
Sonatas for keyboard instruments
Sonata form
Interpretation
Chamber music with harpsichord
Musical archive of the Arcibishop´s castle in Kremsier (the Czech Republic)
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Beethoven´s Violin Concerto and its Interpretation
Štajnochrová, Adéla ; MATOUŠEK, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Willi, Barbara Maria (referee)
This thesis focuses on the Violin Concerto composed by L. v Beethoven, its interpretation and the changes in attitude towards the composition within the two centuries of its existence. The paper is divided in four chapters. First of all it provides information based on primary sources about the development and changes in the violin technique and interpretation. After that an insight into the fate of the concerto after its premiere occurs, followed by an account of its performers. The following chapters compare first the different editions of the concerto and later on its numerous recordings. A live recording of the concerto performed by the author accompanied by Musica Florea with the conducter Marek Štryncl makes part the thesis.
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Contemporary Czech Music for Harpsichord
Knoblochová, Monika ; Mrázková, Giedre (advisor) ; Růžičková, Zuzana (referee) ; Willi, Barbara Maria (referee)
Czech contemporary music for harpsichord is extraordinary both in importance and in the number of pieces that have been composed in the past eighty years. But professional literature, surprisingly, has not concerned itself with this subject. (See the chapter ?Critical Evaluation of Literature?.) Because of the size of the topic, apart from summarizing the repertoire of works from the first half of the twentieth century I have devoted myself mainly to a detailed discussion of the five most important Czech composers for harpsichord: Jan Novák, Viktor Kalabis, Marek Kopelent, Jiří Teml, and Jiří Gemrot. The chapters devoted to these individual composers contain a biographical section, analysis of their compositional means, and a complete catalogue of their works for harpsichord giving circumstances of origin, performance instructions, and a brief summary including dedication, recordings, publication, deposition of the autograph, and first performance. A dominant position among the composers chosen is held by Jiří Teml, and a complete recording of Teml?s music for harpsichord on two compact discs serves as the practical part of this dissertation. Besides the above-mentioned information provided for all five chosen composers, the chapter on Teml includes a detailed analysis of his compositional means and procedures. The dissertation also makes use of authentic recollections and commentary by the chosen composers or members of their families, which I consider to be an important contribution to the subject being treated.
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