ブルノ・ヤナーチェク音楽院、音楽学部学生コンサート

レオシュ・ヤナーチェク（1854‐1928）：草陰の小径、バイオリンとピアノのためのソナタ

リヒャルト・シュトラウス（1864‐1949）：ホルンとピアノのためのアンダンテ

クロード・ドビュッシー（1862－1918）：第1狂詩曲　クラリネットのための作品

Leoš Janáček (1854–1928): On an Overgrown Path, Sonata for violin and piano

Richard Strauss (1864–1949): Andante for Horn and Piano

Claude Debussy (1862–1918): Première Rhapsodie for clarinet

The Student Concert of the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno presents works by authors who had a significant influence on the future development of music at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century. The importance of Leoš Janáček’s musical legacy for culture in Brno is immeasurable. The Academy bears his name with pride, and so logically encourages its students to explore the composer’s works. Janáček originally intended the cycle On an Overgrown Path to be played on the harmonium. He started composing it in 1900, but gradually increased the amount of individual parts; the definitive version in two volumes wasn’t completed until 1911. Janáček’s Sonata for Violin and Piano was created just three years later, at the beginning of World War I.

German composer Richard Strauss and the Frenchman Claude Debussy rank among the most distinctive composers from the turn of the 20th century, though the compositional language they employ is relatively different. Whilst Claude Debussy speaks to us through impressionistic descriptive sound paintings, the work of Richard Strauss is often almost too expressive. The presented compositions are not the most typical products of their authors, however, as both of them were created under special circumstances: Strauss composed his Andante for French Horn and Piano to mark his father’s silver wedding anniversary, and Debussy created his Première Rhapsodie for the clarinet as a new piece to be played in the clarinet examinations at the Paris Conservatory.

Author: Monika Holá