Antonín Pavluš

Antonín Pavluš, 2007

Antonín Pavluš (born June 3, 1947 in Milotice , South Moravia) is a Czech musician. The founder and leader of the Mistříňanka brass band is also a flugelhorn player, composer, arranger and head of a recording studio.

Life

Originally from Moravian Slovakia , Pavluš first learned to play the violin at the age of ten. At 16 he began to learn the trumpet and flugelhorn, with a workload of four hours a day that he completed after work. As a 17-year-old Pavluš attended a concert by the Amati Wind Orchestra Kraslice, which also played traditional Bohemian and Moravian folk music for half an hour. This is how Pavluš decided to play traditional Moravian folk music with amateur bands on a professional level. In 1967 he founded the Mistříňanka Chapel with his brother Josef , with which he achieved international fame. In 1975 Mistrinanka won the renowned brass music competition for the Golden Flugelhorn in Budweis . Pavluš was to lead Mistrinanka for 40 years. The title "Mamko vam", composed by him, is one of the most played pieces in the Czech Republic.

Pavluš gained experience with several bands, copied music archives and trained as a bandmaster with Emanuel Kaláb , who had played in the imperial kuk band in Vienna and was the first military inspector in the first Czech Republic in 1919. Kalab inspired the young Pavluš through his musical education, pedagogical talent and his ability as an arranger and interpreter. He laid the foundations for the musical Credo Pavluš, who sees the brass band with a small cast as a balanced collective.

He passed the Kapellmeister examination at the military music school in Roudnice under the composer Karel Vacek .

Quotes

The following quotes are from Antonin Pavlus' work shop documents:

• “A chapel has to run like Swiss clockwork. Every musician is a cog. If one of the musicians is too weak, he is like a cog with a broken tooth and the clock is slow. If one of the musicians is extremely good, he is like a cog with too many teeth and the clock goes ahead. "
• "In a marching band, a high level of collective play can only be achieved if the conductor is fully respected."
• “The chapel must be well cast in four octaves, namely with the Eb clarinet, the 1st flugelhorn, the tenor horn and the bass. If these four instruments are played by well-balanced musicians, the rest of the band can be put together more easily. "
• “Exceptionally good musicians need space as soloists in expressive compositions. With all other compositions, however, these musicians must not tower above the collective. "
• "A good brass musician needs excellent musical hearing, can sing, is a good soloist and most importantly: is a tolerant person."
• "Those are very wrong, who think they have to express the lightness and serenity of the Moravian polka with an extremely fast to crazy pace."

Web links

• Works by and about Antonín Pavluš in the catalog of the German National Library