Martin Smolka

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Martin Smolka (born August 11, 1959 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) is a contemporary Czech composer .

Live and act

Martin Smolka is the son of the Czech musicologist and composer Jaroslav Smolka (1933–2011). He studied composition with Jiří Pauer and Ctirad Kohoutek at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and took private lessons with Marek Kopelent . In 1983 he co-founded the Ensemble Agon , with whom he worked until 1988 as a musician for prepared piano and artistic director. World premieres of his compositions took place in Europe, North America and Japan and some of them were broadcast on the radio. In addition to his home country, he became particularly popular in Germany. He has completed composition commissions for festivals such as Warsaw Autumn (1987, 2000), Donaueschinger Musiktage (1992, 2000 and 2006), Music Biennale Berlin (1993, 1997), Witten Days for New Chamber Music (1999) and ISCM World Music Days (1990, 1996, 2005, 2006). His opera “Nagano” was performed at the National Opera in Prague and in 2004 was awarded the Alfred Radok National Prize. Since 2003 Smolka has been a lecturer in composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno . Occasionally he works for film and theater. Among other things, he put together the accompanying music for the silent film The Doll , which was re-recorded for the broadcast of the film on German television in 2007.

Works (selection)

  • 1983: Slzy (Tears) ;
  • 1985–1988: Hudba hudbička ( Music Sweet Music );
  • 1988: Music for Retuned Instruments ;
  • 1989: Zvonění ( Ringing );
  • 1989: Nocturne ;
  • 1990-1992: Netopýr ( The Flying Dog );
  • 1990: L'Orch pour l'orch ;
  • 1992: Rain, a Window, Roofs, Chimneys, Pigeons and so ... and Railway-Bridges, too ;
  • 1993-1995: Rent a Ricercar ;
  • 1993: Trzy motywy pastoralne ( Three pastoral motifs );
  • 1996: Euforium ;
  • 1996: Three pieces for retuned orchestra ;
  • 1996-1997: Lullaby ;
  • 1998: 8 pieces for guitar quartet ;
  • 1998: Autumn Thoughts ;
  • 1999: Songs without Words and Passacaglia ;
  • 2000: Blue Note ;
  • 2000: Walden , the Distiller of Celestial Dews ;
  • 2000: Remix, Redream, Reflight ;
  • 2000: Houby a nebe ( Mushrooms and Heaven ), text by Petr Pavel Fiala and Martin Smolka;
  • 2001: violin songs , text by Christian Morgenstern and Bertolt Brecht ;
  • 2001–2003: Nagano - opera , libretto Jaroslav Dušek and Martin Smolka;
  • 2001–2003: Observing the Clouds ;
  • 2002: Missa ;
  • 2002: Ach, mé milé C minor ( Oh, my admired C minor );
  • 2003: Solitudo ;
  • 2003-2004: Tesknice ( Nostalgia );
  • 2004: Hats in the Sky ;
  • 2004: For a Buck ;
  • 2005: The clever Gretchen children's opera, libretto by Klaus Angermann , based on a fairy tale: The clever farmer's daughter of the Brothers Grimm and Královna Koloběžka I by Jan Werich ;
  • 2006: Lamento metodico ;
  • 2006: Słone i smutne ( Salt and Sad ), text by Tadeusz Różewicz ;
  • 2006: Semplice ;
  • 2011-12: Agnus Dei ;
  • 2013: Mare + Mare = Maria ;

Discography

  • Hudba hudbička , Ensemble AGON, Arta Records, Prague 1991
  • Music for Retuned Instruments , ensemble recherche, Witten Days for New Chamber Music 1991, WDR Cologne 1991
  • Rain, a Window, Roofs, Chimneys, Pigeons and so ... and Railway-Bridges, too , col legno München / SWF Baden-Baden, Donaueschinger Musiktage 1992
  • A v sadech korálů, jež slabě zrůžověly , Petr Matuszek - baritone, Martin Smolka - prepared clavir, Na prahu světla , Happy Music, Prague 1996
  • Rent a Ricercar , Flying Dog , For Woody Allen , Nocturne , AGON Orchestra, audio ego / Society for New Music Prague, 1997
  • Euphorium , Rain, a Window, Roofs, Chimneys, Pigeons and so ... and Railway-Bridges, too , Music for Retuned Instruments , Ringing , AGON Orchestra, audio ego / Society for New Music Prague, 1998
  • Walden, the Distiller of Celestial Dews , SWR-Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Meinhard Jenne - drums, Rupert Huber - conductor, Donaueschinger Musiktage 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ My My Country, Martin Smolka swr.de, accessed on October 11, 2013.
  2. ^ Composers, Martin Smolka swr.de, accessed on October 11, 2013.
  3. ^ Silent film, The Doll 3sat.de, accessed on October 11, 2013.