Vítězslava Kaprálová - Five piano compositions
| Publisher | AMOS Editio, s.r.o. |
| Genre: |
music for music school
classical & sacret |
| Arrangement: | piano |
| Cast: | solo |
| Difficulty: |
Intermediate
Advanced |
| Format: | book |
| Series: | Czech composer |
Parameters
| Product code: | AM0064 |
| Composer: | Kaprálová, Vítězslava |
| Author / Editor: | Němec, Věroslav |
| No. of songs: | 5 |
| Pages: | 23 |
| Language: |
English
Czech |
| Size: | 23 x 31 cm |
| ISMN: | 979-0-66057-062-3 |
| Weight: | 150 g |
Songlist (5)
- Maestoso
- Cantabile - moderato
- Andante con moto
- Tempo di menuetto
- Alla marcia funebre
Product description
In the fall of 1930, the then fifteen-year-old Kaprálová began to study composition under Vilém Petrželka at the Brno Conservatory. Between February 1931 and January 1932, she composed her first work of significance, which she entitled Five Piano Compositions. The five „compositions,“ or rather movements, are full of lyricism. They are in fairly slow tempi and their harmonic language is so rich and colorful that a few years later, Kaprálová decided to orchestrate the first four as Suite en miniature.
Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915 - 1940) was a Czech composer and conductor of the first half of the 20th century. She came from a musical family; her father, Václav Kaprál, was a composer and her mother, Vítězslava Kaprálová, née Uhlířová, was a singing teacher. From childhood she showed exceptional musical talent. She studied composition with Vilém Petrželka at the Brno Conservatory and conducting with Zdeněk Chalabala. After graduating, she continued her studies at the Prague Conservatoire's master school under Vítězslav Novák and Václav Talich. Thanks to a French state scholarship, she went to Paris in 1937, where she studied conducting with Charles Munch and composition privately with Bohuslav Martinů. Despite the short time allotted to Kaprálová (she died at the age of 25 of tuberculosis), she managed to compose some forty extremely valuable compositions (piano, chamber, orchestral, vocal) and her music was already highly appreciated during her lifetime. In 1946 the Czech Academy of Sciences awarded her membership in memoriam in recognition of her contribution to Czech music.
