Milan Munclinger
Milan Munclinger ( born July 3, 1923 in Košice, † March 30, 1986 in Prague) was a Czech flautist, conductor, composer and musicologist.
Biography
His father worked as a director and opera singer at the National Theatre in Prague, before he was engaged in Poland and at the Vienna State Opera. His mother was an actress at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. His uncle Tibor Honty was a Czechoslovakian photographer.
Munclinger studied at the Prague Conservatory and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague flute, conducting ( student of Václav Talich ) and composition ( student of Alois Haba ). At the same time, he devoted himself at the Charles University in Prague in musicology, aesthetics and philosophy. During the Second World War he was a member of several orchestras in Germany ( Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Silesian Philharmonic ). From 1946 to 1948 he worked as an assistant to the Český Talich Chamber Orchestra.
On Talich suggestion he founded in 1951 with his wife Viktorie Švihlíková the ensemble Ars Rediviva, the early music, especially the works of Johann Sebastian Bach devoted himself. Munclinger was the first important historical sources in the Czech translated (eg Arnold Dolmetschs The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries Revealed by Contemporary Evidence). With some questions, such as analyzes and reconstructions of archival finds, he later engaged as a musicologist. He worked with the publishers Supraphon and Bears tab, and IMC New York together and also published works of his contemporaries, so among other things, January Rychlík, Oldrich Korte or Jindřich Feld, he introduced her to Jean -Pierre Rampal. At his suggestion has premiered and recorded field Rampal Flute Concerto, which for the first time brought the author international recognition.
As a conductor, led Munclinger particularly pre-classical music recordings and worked with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Radio Orchestra and the Prague Chamber Orchestra. He participated in the award- Grand Prix du Disque de l' Académie Charles Cros Project Musica Antiqua Bohemical. The LP series also contains one of his first recordings with Jean -Pierre Rampal: Flute Concertos by Franz Benda and Franz Xaver Richter (found by Munclinger in the National Library in Paris and premiered in 1955 by Rampal in Prague).
He was also a jury member of interpretation competitions (eg Concours de flute Jean -Pierre Rampal, Paris 1980 and 1983), taught at the Prague Conservatory and interpretation courses in Bayreuth and Nice ( Académie Internationale d' Été, founded by Jean -Pierre Rampal ). In his television and radio broadcasts, as well as in his " talking " concerts (1951-1986) he has won, especially among young people for the early music a wide circle of listeners.
As a flutist, he was also interested in jazz and modern music ( first performances of Jolivet, Hurník, Krejčí ). He was co-founder of the Czechoslovak Jeunesse Musicales and the Czech Society for Early Music.
With his teacher and friend Jean -Pierre Rampal, he worked from 1951 until his death in March 1986 together. He devoted him, inter alia, his reconstruction of JS Bach's concertos BWV 1055, 1056 and 1059th Rampal wrote about Munclinger in his book Musique, ma vie, and called him his mentor. He dedicated his recordings of works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.