František Sláma (musician)

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František Sláma (born November 19, 1923 in Herálec , Moravia ; † May 5, 2004 in Říčany , Czech Republic ) was a Czech chamber musician . As the first Czech cellist , he dedicated his life to early music .

Life

He came from a poor region of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands , until 18 he worked as a day laborer in the forest and quarry. It was only when he met the cello teacher Karel Pravoslav Sádlo that he was able to study music. Sádlo supported him and introduced him to playing the cello. At the Prague Conservatory (1942-1948) and at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (1948-1952) Sláma was his student.

Václav Talich made Sláma enthusiastic about chamber music and engaged him in his Czech Chamber Orchestra in 1946. After Talich was banned from public activity in Prague in 1948, some young instrumentalists held a cycle of chamber music concerts with him, in which Sláma also took part. 1950–1956 he was then able to continue working under Talich's direction in the orchestra of the Czech Philharmonic and in the Ars Rediviva chamber ensemble.

In 1948 he was accepted into the orchestra of the Czech Philharmonic under Rafael Kubelík , where he worked until 1981 (from 1962 as second solo cellist and director of the cello group). He also appeared as a soloist, but turned more and more to pre-classical chamber music.

Interpreter

At the beginning of the 1950s he became gambist of one of the oldest European ensembles for Renaissance music Pro Arte Antiqua (founded in 1933) and in 1954 a founding member of Milan Munclinger's chamber ensemble Ars Rediviva , which played an important role in the rediscovery of baroque music in Czechoslovakia . In the 1960s he then founded the Trio Baroque Prague with Josef Hála and Eugen Prokop .

With these ensembles he made concert tours in Europe and made numerous sound recordings for Supraphon , Panton, DGG , Ariola , Columbia Records , Nippon , Sony Classical as well as for radio, television and film (awards: Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy , Golden Lion of the Supraphon-Verlag et al).

He also took part in premieres of modern compositions (e.g. Ilja Hurník's Sonata da camera , Jan Tausinger's Evocationes ).

publicist

He taught at the Prague Conservatory, translated some HIP sources into Czech and was also active as a journalist (he introduced the Czech public to Jordi Savall's art in a radio cycle ). In his book Z Herálce do Šangrilá ( From Herálec to Shangri-La ) he recalls his place of birth, the musical and theater life in Prague from the 1940s to the 1990s, his teachers, friends and colleagues in the Philharmonic Orchestra and the conductor Talich , Barbirolli , Cluytens , Karajan , Kleiber , Klemperer , Kletzki, Kubelík , Maazel , Mackerras , brand Witch , Matačić , Mravinski , Münch , Pedrotti, Roschdestwenski , Sawallisch , Stokowski and to Adorjan , André , Fournier , Honegger , Mainardi , Menuhin , Milhaud , Navarra , Nureyev , David Oistrach , Rampal , Richter , Szeryng , Sudek , Tortelier .

František Sláma Archive

The archive that František Sláma bequeathed to his birthplace Herálec contains 5000 photographs, 150 hours of authentic sound recordings as well as documents on the Czech Philharmonic, Václav Talich, Milan Muclinger, Ars Rediviva, Pro Arte Antiqua and others. a. Part of the archive is kept in the Czech Museum of Music .

memories

  • František Sláma: Z Herálce do Šangrilá ( From Herálec to Shangri-La ). Orego, Říčany 2001, ISBN 80-86117-61-8 .

literature

  • Ivetta Koláčková: František Sláma . In: Rudolfinum Revue , IV / 1, p. 47, Česká filharmonie , Praha 2004–2005
  • Jana Vašatová: Filharmonikové v souboru Ars rediviva. 50 let Ars rediviva ( Philharmonic and Ars Rediviva. Ars Rediviva, 50th anniversary ). In: Rudolfinum Revue , I / 1, Česká filharmonie, Praha 2001–2002, pp. 33–34
  • Sean Tyler: International Who's Who in Music and Musicians. Sixteenth Edition . IBC, Cambridge 1998
  • Alain Pâris: Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interprétation musicale au XX siècle . Laffont, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-221-08064-5
  • Československý hudební slovník osob a institucí ("Czechoslovak Music Lexicon"), 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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Éric Baude: Václav Talich . In: Quelques interprètes , November 2002
personal data
SURNAME Sláma, František
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech cellist and gambist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Herálec na Moravě , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2004
Place of death Říčany , Czech Republic