Guitar Duets - Smetana, Fibich, Janáček - arranged by Jiří Jirmal
Publisher | Barenreiter |
Genre: | classical & sacret |
Arrangement: | melody |
Cast: | duet |
Difficulty: | Advanced |
Format: | book |
Series: | Czech composer |
Parameters
Product code: | H7797 |
Composer: |
Smetana, Bedřich
Fibich, Zdeněk Janáček, Leoš |
Arranger: | Jirmal, Jiří |
No. of songs: | 6 |
Pages: | 18 |
Size: | 23 x 31 cm |
ISMN: | 9790260001480 |
Weight: | 78 g |
Songlist (6)
- Touha / Longing (Smetana Bedřich)
- Lístek odvanutý / A Blown - Away Leaf (Janáček Leoš)
- Naše večery / Our Nights (Janáček Leoš)
- Furiant / Czech Folk Dance (Fibich Zdeněk)
- Nevinnost / Innocence (Smetana Bedřich)
- Vzpomínka / Souvenir (Smetana Bedřich)
Product description
The collection of six guitar duets, arranged by Jiří Jirmal, brings inspirational transcriptions of the well-known piano pieces by Bedřich Smetana Innocence, Souvenir and Desire, Furiant by Zdeněk Fibich and Our Evenings, and Leaf by Leoš Janáček.
Bedřich Smetana (1824 - 1884) was a Czech composer of the Romantic period. He is one of the most famous Czech composers. From his early youth he was devoted to music, especially piano playing and composition. During his lifetime he worked as a concert pianist, music teacher, conductor and music critic. Smetana wrote mainly operatic and symphonic works. His piano works, concentrated in the early stages of his compositional activity, also occupy a considerable volume in his oeuvre. His chamber music is represented by rare, though substantial, works, and his choruses and songs occupy a rather marginal position. At the age of fifty he became completely deaf, but even after his hearing loss he was able to compose a number of masterpieces. Throughout his work he strove to create a distinctive Czech musical style.
Jiří Jirmal (1925-2019) was a Czech guitarist, composer, publicist and pedagogue. He played the guitar from a young age, especially jazz music. He received his professional classical music education at the State Conservatory of Music in Prague, where he also later taught himself. He had to end his successful concert activities in 1965 after a serious car accident, and since then he has devoted himself mainly to pedagogical, journalistic and composing activities.