Informationen zu "Frantisek Gregora Ed: David Heyes Transcribed: Frantisek Simandl Scherzo in A minor Double Bass & Piano"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1035
EAN: 9990093814213
Beschreibung
This edition includes piano accompaniments for both solo and orchestral
tunings. Franti?ek Gregora (1819-1887) was a prolific composer and was born
in Netolice, Bohemia on 9 January 1819. He showed early musical talent and
studied organ, piano, violin, flute and clarinet before transferring to the
double bass and in 1844 he entered the Vienna Conservatoire, where he studied
double bass with Antonín Slama and composition with Gottfried Preyer. After
graduation Gregora returned to Bohemia, settling in Písek, where he lived
until his death on 27 January 1887. He became an important local musical
figure as organist, choir master and music teacher, and was soon nicknames
'the travelling bass virtuoso' - having given many solo recitals in the area.
Franti?ek Gregora was a fairly prolific composer and his output includes
sacred and secular choral music, chamber and orchestral works alongside a
wealth of solo music for double bass. Much of Gregora?s double bass music was
written for an instrument with a high C string, an instrument he had
inherited from Antonín Slama, which has to be adapted for today?s tunings. At
the end of the 19th-century Franti?ek [Franz] Simandl [1840-1912] arranged a
number of works by Gregora, which Konrad Siebach subsequently revised for
publication in 1953. Scherzo in A minor has been newly revised by David
Heyes in 2019, the bicentenary of the birth of Franti?ek Gregora, with the
solo double bass part transposed into G minor and accompaniments provided for
both solo and orchestral tunings. The music is rhythmic and vibrant, with a
strong momentum throughout contrasting a more lyrical middle section marked
Cantabile, ending with an energetic flourish which is exciting and
technically challenging. Full of character and invention, this new edition is
a great addition to Recital Music?s ongoing Heritage Edition.
