Jindřich Feld

Jindřich Feld ( born February 19, 1925 in Prague, † July 8, 2007 in Prague) was a Czech composer.

Biography

Both parents were violinists and field early learned the violin and viola playing from his father. He studied composition at the Prague Conservatory and at the Prague Academy of Music, as well as musicology, aesthetics and philosophy at the Charles University in Prague. He completed his studies in 1952 with a doctorate from. As a freelance composer, he gained international recognition in the late 1950s, after which new works from home and abroad followed. Especially the first performed by Jean -Pierre Rampal Flute Concerto (also a recording, 1956) has made field known abroad.

1968 and 1969 he worked as a visiting professor of composition at the University of Adelaide. In the period 1972 to 1986, he held a professorship of composition at the Prague Conservatory and had many guest - teaching commitments at universities and colleges in Europe, the USA and Japan. Since the democratic revolution of 1989 had a field in the association of Czech musicians and musicologists with a leading position. Since 1992, he was head of the music department of the Czech Radio Český rozhlas.

Field work is divided into three periods.

His early work from the 1950s is very European, especially the Czech, musical tradition bound and is characterized by tonal embossed harmony, formal clarity and rhythmic liveliness. Important works of this period are the Concerto for Orchestra (1952, both thesis at the Conservatory ), Flute Concerto (1954 ), Cello Concerto ( 1958) as well as field a single stage work, the children's opera " The Tale of the Postman " (1956, by Karel Capek ).

His second work spans the 1960s. During this time the field is trying to involve increasingly modern composition techniques such as twelve-tone technique, serialism and aleatoric in his individual compositional style. Further field work lives of his awareness of proportion, its orchestration and its rhythmic finesse. From this period, including the Fourth String Quartet (1965 ), was awarded the Czech National Award for the field in 1968, the First Symphony (1967) and the dramatic imagination " Days in August " (1968 /69), the field come protest against the suppression of the Prague Spring posed by Soviet troops.

Since the seventies ' is less influenced by Try and find his work, and shows a well-established composer connects in many ways his creative expression with his compositional skills. These include the concertos for piano (1973 ), Violin ( 1977), Saxophone (1980 ) and Harp ( 1982), the Fifth String Quartet (1979 ), the saxophone quartet (1981 ), the Second Symphony (1983 ), and field 's biggest and most important work, the oratorio " Cosmae Chronica Boemorum " ( " Bohemian Cosmas Chronicle ", 1988).