Svatopluk Havelka

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Svatopluk Havelka (born May 2, 1925 in Vrbice , Czechoslovakia , † February 24, 2009 in Prague ) was a Czech musician and composer.

Life

Havelka studied musicology at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague under Joseph Hutter and Antonin Sychra . At the same time he had private composition lessons with Karel Boleslav Jirák from 1945 to 1947 . Sychra was together with B. Liebich teacher for musical education at the university, from which he finally graduated in 1949.

In 1955 he wrote his first symphony. The work is characterized by idiosyncratic harmonic progressions. Havelka prefers modern composition techniques and wrote around 70 film scores. Princ a Vecernice (1979), for example, shows counterpoint to the plot with many jazz harmonic moments in interesting orchestration, used in a medieval fairy tale, his harmonious thinking.

Filmography

  • 1954: It all comes to an end tonight (Dnes vecer vsechno skoncí)
  • 1956: Hänschen's great journey (Honzíkova cesta)
  • 1959: Alibi (105% alibi)
  • 1960: The secret of the powder compact (Zpívající pudrenka)
  • 1960: The Lupinek case (Prípad Lupínek)
  • 1960: I survived my death (Prezil jsem svou smrt)
  • 1961: The fairy tale of the old tram (Pohádka o staré tramvaji)
  • 1962: Ännchen goes to school (Anicka jde do skoly)
  • 1962: Chicken on the move (Kurata na cestach)
  • 1963: Whom the hangover comes (Az prijde kocour)
  • 1964: The first day in my son's life (První den mého syna)
  • 1964: A crazy family (Táto, sezen stene)
  • 1964: Stories about children (Povidky o detech)
  • 1964: Place card without return (Místenka bez návratu)
  • 1964: Leap into the Dark (Skok do tmy)
  • 1964: Diary of a marriage (Marie)
  • 1965: Master detective Dr. Martin (Volejte Martina)
  • 1966: pipes, beds, lovebirds (Dýmky)
  • 1966: A new case for master detective Dr. Martin (Martin a cervené sklícko)
  • 1966: Hotel for strangers (Hotel pro cizince)
  • 1967: The end of the secret agent W 4 C (Konec agenta W4C prostrednictvím psa pana Foustky)
  • 1968: All good compatriots (Vsichni dobrí rodáci)
  • 1968: On the general's war chariot (Zizka na Zizkove válecném voze)
  • 1970: Not just at Christmas time
  • 1970: The Ear (Ucho)
  • 1970: Sir, you are a widow (Pane, vy jste vdova!)
  • 1971: One of them is the killer (every one nich one vrah)
  • 1973: Anonymous report (Zatykac na kralovnu)
  • 1973: The Secret of the Golden Buddha (Tajemství zlatého Buddhy)
  • 1975: The city knows nothing (Mesto nic neví)
  • 1976: The Fall of the Dead Man (Prípad mrtvých spoluzáku)
  • 1979 The Prince and the Evening Star (Princ a Vecernice)
  • 1980: The riddle of the empty urn (Neco je ve vzduchu)
  • 1982: grape harvest (Vinobraní)
  • 1985: Silent Joy (Tichá radost)
  • 1988: The Fearless (Nebojsa)
  • 1990: private life

literature

  • Václav Kučera: Havelkova "Chvála světla" . In: Hudební rozhledy , 13, 1960, ISSN  0018-6996 , pp. 507-510.
  • Jaroslav Smolka: Svatopluka Havelky Epistola de Magistri Hieronymi de Praga . In: Hudební rozhledy , 42, 1989, pp. 283-286.
  • Ivan Vojtěch: symphony in B Svatopluka Havelky . In: Hudební rozhledy , 12, 1959, pp. 54-57.
  • Petar Zapletal: Svatopluka Havelky Parénézae . In: Hudební rozhledy , 47, 1994, 11, pp. 5-7.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Havelka, Svatopluk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vrbice , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2009
Place of death Prague