We offer a 2.25" x 4.25" heavy stock autographed card by the founding conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic and composer. We offer with a half tone image from a program.
Zdeněk
Folprecht (1900 - 1961) was a Czech composer and conductor.
After
graduating from high school he studied composition at the Prague Conservatory
under Josef Bohuslav Foerster. He continued his studies at the master school
with Vítězslav Novák (composition) and Václav Talich (conducting). From 1926 he was a conductor of the Slovak
National Theater Opera. The director of the opera was then Oskar Nedbal, who
helped him to stage his works which became a part of Slovak musical life. At
that time he also directed the amateur Slovak Philharmonic and became its
artistic director. He has recorded for radio and gramophone records and has
often been invited to guest abroad. Whilst
working in Bratislava, Folprecht successfully appeared as a conductor at the
National Theater in Prague as a guest. In 1939 he was permanently engaged by
Václav Talich and remained until 1961 as a conductor and vocal coach. He often
accompanied soloists of the National Theater during concert performances. He
was also invited to guest abroad, in particular to conduct operas by Czech
composers. In 1947, the King of Romania appointed him officer of the Romanian
Crown.
He
died suddenly in 1961.
Work
Stage
works
Loves
play fateful, opera based on the play by the Čapek brothers (1922, premiere at
the Slovak National Theater on November 13, 1926)
Broken
Heart, a scenic symphony with its own text (1934, premiere on January 18,
1936).
Orchestral
compositions
Moods
for Chamber Orchestra (1926)
The
Lost Valley, fantasy on Slovak folk songs (1934)
Symphony
No. 1 (1935)
Scherzo
Fantastico (1937)
Midsummer
(1938)
Concerto
for Piano and Orchestra (1940 - Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences and
Arts)
Festive
Overture (1943)
Symphony
No. 2 of Peace (1947)
Symfonietta
Symphony
No. 3 Joyful (1950)
Concerto
for Violin and Orchestra (1951)
Evening
Music, Serenade (1957)
Rondo
brillante for piano and orchestra (1958)
Symphony
No. 4 (1959)
Cantata
Hymn
of the Resurrection (1929 - Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Czech
Spring (1944 - Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Liberation
Hymn (1945)
Chamber
compositions
Suite
for piano (1925)
Rondo
for Two Pianos (1952)
Sonatina
for Violin and Piano (1942)
Capriccio
for Violin and Piano (1956)
Small
Suite in Old Style for Flute and Harp (1937)
1st
String Quartet (1934)
2nd
String Quartet (1949)
3rd
String Quartet (1955)
String
Quintet with Two Viola (1930)
Wind
Quintet (1938)
Concertino
for nine solo instruments (1942 - Czech Chamber Music Society Award)
Songs
Songs
Op. 1
Three
Songs on French Poetry (translated by Karel Čapek, 1938)
Far
East Songs (1941)
Merry
Songs (1944)
Secret
Love (on the words of Spanish folk poetry, 1945 - Prize of the Czech Academy of
Sciences and Arts)
Several
collections of Czech and Slovak folk songs.
Choirs
Choirs
Op. 7
2
Female Choirs Op. 12
2
male choirs
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