Pavel Blatný (composer)

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Pavel Blatný (born September 14, 1931 in Brno ) is a Czech composer who has dealt intensively with the Third Stream . He lives as a freelance composer in Brno.

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Josef Blatný's son first graduated from the conservatory in his hometown (composition with T. Schaefer, piano with V. Vaňura and conducting with B. Liška) and then studied at Masaryk University , in Prague and at the Berklee School of Music in Boston where he also did his PhD. Privately he studied composition with Pavel Bořkovec (1955–57), on whose scenic music he wrote his musicological diploma thesis.

In his first creative period he dealt with neoclassicism , which from his point of view was mainly represented by Martinů , Stravinsky and Prokofiev .

Many works of the second creative period, which is dated from 1960 to 1980, are influenced by jazz and third-stream music. Blatný composed a study for quarter-tone trumpet, a concerto for jazz orchestra, a jazz notet and a piece for jazz band and chamber ensemble, as well as orchestral and instrumental pieces, vocal works, musicals and a children's opera. He wrote u. a. for Gustav Brom , Karel Krautgartner , Kurt Edelhagen , Erwin Lehn , Don Ellis (“Pour Ellis” 1966), the Danish Radio Jazz Workshop and a few other big bands. These "compositions aroused legitimate interest from the public as well as the critics and were among the best works that emerged in the field of the jazz scene of the time." Since 1974 he has been the chief music editor at the Brno TV station. He was several times a teacher on the jazz courses in Remscheid.

After 1980 there was a fundamental upheaval in Blatný's oeuvre, which is also seen as a return “to the tradition and turning away from the radicalism and rational constructivism of New Music and the Third Stream”.

literature

  • Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
  • Antonín Matzner, Ivan Poledňák, Igor Wasserberger: Encyklopedie jazzu a moderní populární hudby . Volume 3: Část jmenná. Československá scene - osobnosti a soubory . Supraphon, Prague 1990, pp. 48-50.
  • František Havelka: The Czech Music of the Third Stream in European and world contexts ; Acta Universitas Palackianae Olumucensis - Philosophica Aesthetica 24 (2001) (PDF file; 107 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ František Havelka: The Czech Music of the Third Stream , p. 11
  2. ↑ František Havelka: The Czech Music of the Third Stream , p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Blatný, Pavel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno