Informationen zu "Frantisek Cerny Ed: David Heyes Dumka Double Bass & Piano"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM927
EAN: 9790570459278
ISMN: M-57045-927-8
Beschreibung
Dumka is a lyrical and evocative work for double bass and piano dating from
the early years of the 20th-century. The music is influenced by the music of
Dvorak and Smetana, and the music of central Europe, and is full of rich
romantic harmonies and melodies, untilising more than a three octave range of
the double bass. Cerny's music is always beautifully written for the double
bass, exploiting the lyrical and cantabile qualities of the instrument, and
this long-forgotten gem is worthy of a place in today's solo repertoire. A
Dumka is a type of Slavic folk-ballad, alternately elegiac and more
effervescent, and was a form frequently used by Dvorak.
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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.
