Milan Munclinger

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Milan Munclinger (born July 3, 1923 in Košice , † March 30, 1986 in Prague ) was a Czech flautist , conductor , composer and musicologist .

biography

His father worked as a director and opera singer at the National Theater in Prague, before he was engaged in Poland and at the Vienna State Opera . His mother was an actress at the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava . His uncle Tibor Honty was a Czechoslovak photographer .

Munclinger studied flute , conducting (pupil of Václav Talich ) and composition (pupil of Alois Hába ) at the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague . At the same time he devoted himself to musicology, aesthetics and philosophy at the Charles University in Prague . During the Second World War he was a member of several orchestras in Germany ( Gewandhausorchester , Schlesische Philharmonie ). From 1946 to 1948 he worked as an assistant in Talich's Czech Chamber Orchestra .

At Talich's suggestion, he and his wife Viktorie Švihlíková founded the Ars Rediviva ensemble in 1951 , which was dedicated to early music , especially the work of Johann Sebastian Bach . Munclinger was the first to translate important historical sources into Czech (e.g. Arnold Dolmetsch's The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries Revealed by Contemporary Evidence ). Later, as a musicologist, he dealt with a number of questions, such as analyzes and reconstructions of archival finds. He worked with the publishing houses Supraphon and Bärenreiter , as well as IMC New York and also published works by his contemporaries, such as a. Jan Rychlík, Oldřich Korte or Jindřich Feld , whom he introduced to Jean-Pierre Rampal. At his suggestion, Rampal premiered and recorded Feld's Flute Concerto, which brought the author international recognition for the first time.

As a conductor, Munclinger especially directed recordings of pre-classical music and worked a. a. with the Prague Philharmonic , the Prague Symphony, the Prague Radio Orchestra and the Prague Chamber Orchestra. He participated in the Musica Antiqua Bohemica project, which was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy . The LP series also includes one of his first recordings with Jean-Pierre Rampal : Flute Concertos by Franz Benda and Franz Xaver Richter (found by Munclinger in the Paris National Library and premiered by Rampal in Prague in 1955).

He was also a member of the jury at interpretation competitions (e.g. Concours de flûte Jean-Pierre Rampal , Paris 1980 and 1983), taught at the Prague Conservatory and at interpretation courses in Bayreuth and Nice ( Académie Internationale d'Été , founded by Jean-Pierre Rampal). In his TV and radio broadcasts as well as in his "Talk Concerts" (1951–1986), he won a large audience for early music, especially among young people.

As a flautist, he was also interested in jazz and modern music (premieres of Jolivet , Hurník , Krejčí).
He was a co-founder of the Czechoslovak Jeunesses Musicales and the Czech Society for Early Music .

He worked with his teacher and friend Jean-Pierre Rampal from 1951 until his death in March 1986. He dedicated u. a. his reconstructions of JSBachs concerts BWV 1055, 1056 and 1059. Rampal wrote about Munclinger in his book Musique, ma vie and called him his mentor. He dedicated his recordings of the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach to him .

literature

  • František Sláma : Z Herálce do Šangrilá ( From Herálec to Shangri-La ). Orego, Říčany 2001. ISBN 80-86117-61-8
  • Nicolas Slonimsky: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians . Schirmer Books, 1997, ISBN 0-02-871271-4
  • Alain Pâris: Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l´interprétation musicale au XX siècle . Laffont, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-221-08064-5
  • Jean-Pierre Rampal: memories . Atlantis, Zurich / Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-254-00197-4
  • Marc Vignal: Larousse de la musique , vol. 1. Editions Larousse , Paris 1982, ISBN 2-03-511303-2
  • Československý hudební slovník osob a institucí ( Czechoslovak Music Encyclopedia ), Vol. 2. SHV, Prague 1965
  • Jan Kozák: Českoslovenští hudební umělci a komorní soubory ( Czechoslovak musicians and chamber ensembles ). Pp. 427, 454, 479, SHV, Praha 1964

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personal data
SURNAME Munclinger, Milan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech flautist, conductor, composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Košice
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1986
Place of death Prague