Informationen zu "Frantisek Cerny Ed: David Heyes Danse Caprice Double Bass & Piano"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1031
EAN: 9990093814176
Beschreibung
This printed edition is for SOLO TUNING only but it is also available as a
PDF file for both tunings. Please contact doublebass@tiscali.co.uk or
solodoublebass@gmail.com for more details. Danse Caprice is in one extended
movement and emphasises the sonorous, lyrical and cantabile qualities of the
double bass throughout its solo register. The style is late-romantic and
accessible, probably written at the end of the 19th-century, with a strongly
independent and supportive piano accompaniment. Cerny's music is always
beautifully written for the double bass and title echoes the dance-like
music, in waltz time, with a capricious energy and effervescence throughout.
Frantisek Cerny was a Czech bassist, teacher and composer. He was born on 23
January 1860 in Pardubice and studied at the Prague Conservatoire (1876-82)
and in Paris, where he later became a member of the Orchestre
Colonne-Lamoureux from 1884-1890. He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1890, when
he was appointed Principal Bass of the National Theatre Orchestra in Prague
(1890-1900), and it was at this time that he discovered the wonderful
Grancino double bass of 1693, later owned by Oldrichs Sorejs and Frantisek
Posta. Cerny was an outstanding teacher and taught at the Prague
Conservatoire for 31 years (1900-31) and many of the leading Czech bassists
at the beginning of the 20th-century were taught by him. He was not a
prolific composer and most of his works were written for the double bass,
including a Method (1906), 30 Etudes-Caprices (1923), Technical Studies in
Thumb Position (1927), 4 Concertos and ten salon pieces for double bass and
piano. Cerny studied composition with Antonin Dvorak and much of his music
reflects the salon style of the late 19th-century. All his works are melodic
and appealing, combining the late-Romantic idiom of Dvorak and Brahms, with
Czech lyricism and influences, and he makes full use of the solo capabilities
of the double bass. Frantisek Cerny died in Prague on 3 September 1940.
