Vítězslava Kaprálová - Sad evening - song for soprano or tenor and piano
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| Publisher | AMOS Editio, s.r.o. |
| Genre: |
music for music school
classical & sacret |
| Arrangement: | vocal / piano |
| Cast: | solo |
| Lyrics language: |
English
Czech |
| Format: | book |
| Series: | Czech composer |
Parameters
| Product code: | AM0067 |
| Composer: | Kaprálová, Vítězslava |
| No. of songs: | 1 |
| Pages: | 11 |
| Language: |
English
Czech |
| Size: | 23 x 31 cm |
| ISMN: | 979-0-66057-065-4 |
| Weight: | 0.098 |
Songlist (1)
- Smutný večer
Product description
In 2006, while browsing through Kaprálová Papers deposited in the Music History Department of the Moravian Museum in Brno, Karla Hartl came across an autograph of a previously unknown Kaprálová song, entitled Smutný večer (Sad evening). It is not only the music but also the text of the song, likely written by the composer herself, which makes this find so interesting. We have no doubt that this edition of Sad Evening, prepared for publication by Kaprálová scholar Timothy Cheek, Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Michigan, will make a valuable contribution to the body of knowledge about Kaprálová’s oeuvre, in which art song holds such a prominent place. The project was initiated and financially assisted by the Kapralova Society.
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.
