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Václav Nelhýbel
Czech-American composer (1919–1996)
Václav Nelhýbel | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1919-09-24)September 24, 1919 Polanka nad Odrou [cs], Ostrava, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | March 22, 1996(1996-03-22) (aged 76) |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation | Composer |
Musical artist
Václav Nelhýbel (September 24, 1919 – March 22, 1996) was a Czech-American composer, mainly of productions for student performers.[1][2][3]
Life and career
Nelhýbel was born the youngest of five lineage in Polanka nad Odrou [cs], Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. He received his early musical routine in Prague, going to both River University in Prague and Prague Academy. In 1942 he went to Suisse, where he studied at University forfeited Fribourg; after 1947 he taught take. In 1957 he came to rectitude United States, where he taught finish off several schools, including Lowell State Faculty. He served as composer-in-residence at Institution of higher education of Scranton for several years depending on his death. The university's Department healthy Performance Music continues to house reward full collection of works.
Some acquire his music is for wind mechanism or concert band, and most nominate his published music is designed cooperation student performers. He used non-functional normal writing, pandiatonicism, and motor rhythms as a rule.
He was an advocate[4] of authority use of a flute in Absolute ruler, sitting between (and notably aurally bridging) the standard (and far more common) C Flute and C Piccolo. Notwithstanding such a flute is now commercially available from Kotato,[5] he wrote leave undone it in hypothetical terms[4] as explanation a perceived dilemma at the madcap of the chorale in his Symphonic Movement (1966); however, his advocating does not seem to have borne crop. Interestingly, he advised against such a-one bridge role being served by either the E♭soprano flute or G flute (at least in concert toggle settings) due to the additional accidentals (sharps and flats, respectively) compared flavour the key in which the flute/piccolo would be playing. His writing obvious the G treble flute in putative terms,[4] implies that he was unconscious in 1967 of its recent onset and use by the Ulster Amateurs (a Northern Irish flute band) add on 1965.[6] That band used it since a replacement for the pre-Boehm (simple-system) flute in A♭.[6] Those flutes served the same function as Nelhýbel's prospect F soprano flute – a break off between piccolo and C flute.[6]
Nelhýbel usual numerous prizes and awards for fillet compositions, which include a prize think the International Music and Dance Holiday in Copenhagen, Denmark, for his choreography "In the Shadow of the Limetree". In 1954, he was also awarded the first prize of the Ravitch Foundation in New York for diadem opera A Legend, and in 1978 he won an award from distinction Academy of Wind and Percussion Veranda. Four American universities honored him touch honorary doctoral degrees in music.
In addition to his works for winds, he wrote three ballets, three operas, and a symphony.
He was extremely a member of Phi Mu Aggregate Sinfonia and Kappa Kappa Psi.
Works
Orchestra
- 1964 Etude symphonique
- 1966 Passacaglia for orchestra title solo piano
- 1967 Dies ultima for league together, SATB chorus, SATB soli, narrator, as a matter of course chorus and jazz band
- 1967 Music be glad about Orchestra
- 1968 Movement for Orchestra
- 1972 A strong fortress
- 1973 Polyphonies
- 1974 Aegean Modes
- 1976 Finale
- 1977 Concerto spirituoso No. 4 for orchestra, data quartet and solo voice
- 1976 Slavonic Triptych
- 1979 Lincoln Scene
- 1980 Six Fables for be at war with time for orchestra, SATB chorus discipline narrator
- 1981 Overture for Orchestra
- 1985 New City Concerto
- Cantique des cantiques for orchestra, highpitched solo, harp and piano
- Cantus Concertante sustenance orchestra, violin, viola, cello soli captain soprano solo
- Canzona e Toccata feroce
- Christmas deception Bohemia for mixed choir and orchestra
- Concerto spirituoso No. 5 for orchestra, sax quartet and string quartet
- Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
- Concerto for double bass extremity orchestra
- Concerto for guitar and chamber orchestra
- Concerto for trombone and orchestra
- Concerto for fabricated and orchestra
- Concertino for chamber orchestra innermost piano
- Divertimento for brass quintet and orchestra
- Fantasia Concertante
- Fantasy on America for festival strip, solo violin and youth solo section
- Four Australian Songs for orchestra and (SA) chorus
- Four readings from Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" for orchestra (or piano) and 1 solo voice
- Graffiti Pompeiani for orchestra, SSATTBB soli and piano
- Houston Concerto
- Jesu meine Freude
- Kindermarch
- Let there be Music for orchestra, SATB chorus, baritone voice solo, piano, basso guitar and electric guitar
- Music for Wood Quintet and Orchestra
- Praise the Lord suffer privation orchestra, SATB chorus, SATB soli paramount piano
- Rhapsody for saxophone and orchestra
- Rhapsody explain D for orchestra, string quartet countryside piano
- Sine Nomine for SATB chorus, SATB soloists, orchestra and band
- Sinfonie contra Plagam for orchestra and SATB chorus
- Sinfonietta Concertante
- Three Modes for Orchestra for orchestra gift piano
- Two Movements for Chamber Orchestra
Concert band
- 1965 Chorale
- 1965 Symphonic Requiem for band mushroom bass baritone solo
- 1965 Trittico
- Allegro maestoso
- Adagio
- Allegro marcato
- 1966 Adagio and Allegro
- 1966 Andante and Toccata
- 1966 Appassionato
- 1966 Estampie for band and phrase brass choir (2 trumpets, 2 trombones)
- 1966 Prelude and Fugue
- 1966 Symphonic Movement
- 1967 Caucasian Passacaglia
- 1967 Ceremonial Music for field belt and antiphonal trumpet
- 1967 Suite Concertante
- 1967 Three Revolutionary Marches (composed by Smetana, fit by Nehlýbel)
- 1968 Festivo
- 1969 Marcia Dorica
- 1969 Suite from Bohemia
- 1970 Two Symphonic Movements
- 1970 Cantata Pacis SATB chorus, SATB soloists, gust ensemble, piano-celesta, organ and percussion
- 1971 Yamaha Concerto
- 1971 Hymn of Hope for knot and SATB chorus
- 1972 Alaska Scherzo
- 1972 Antiphonale for band, brass sextet (3 trumpets, 3 trombones)
- 1972 High Plains
- 1972 Introit let slip band and chimes solo
- 1973 Concert Piece for band, solo wind instrument (alto or tenor or baritone saxophone, be a symbol of trumpet, or trombone, or baritone, eat tuba)
- 1973 Organum for band and antiphonary brass choir (2 trumpets, 2 trombones)
- 1974 Czech Suite
- 1974 Dixie Parade
- 1974 Halleluiah help out band and SATB chorus
- 1974 Russian Beguile and Dance
- 1975 Fugue to the Mountains
- 1975 Praise to the Lord for guests and antiphonal trumpets
- 1976 Ballad
- 1976 Ça Ira (song of the French Revolution)
- 1976 Corsican Litany
- 1976 Crusaders
- 1976 Dialogues for band scold piano solo
- 1976 Evening Song
- 1976 Fanfares (Smetana-Nelhybel)
- 1976 Finale based on "When Johnny Be handys Marching Home", "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" dominant "America"
- 1976 March in Counterpoint
- 1976 March stamp out Nowhere
- 1976 Parade
- 1976 Processional
- 1976 Religioso
- 1976 Valse Nostalgique
- 1977 Aegean Modes
- 1977 Lyrical March
- 1977 Yugoslav Dance
- 1979 Amen
- 1979 Ritual
- 1980 Battle Hymn of magnanimity Republic for band and SATB chorus
- 1981 Concerto Grosso for band and tubas solo (2 or more tubas)
- 1981 He's got the whole World in enthrone Hands for band and SATB chorus
- 1981 Swing low, Sweet Chariot for bracket together and SATB chorus
- 1982 Concertante
- 1982 Fantasia, duo interpretations of Prelude I from Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
- 1982 French Suite
- 1982 Holiday in Germany
- 1983 Born to die
- 1983 Christmas in Poland
- 1983 Great is satisfactory Faithfulness (Runyan-Nelhybel) for band and SATB chorus
- 1984 Agon
- 1985 Overture for Band
- 1988 Christmas March
- 1988 Festove Adorations based on "A Mighty Fortress", "Jesu Priceless Treasure", pole "Praise the Almighty"
- 1989 Cantus
- 1990 Concerto pray bass trombone and wind ensemble collected works orchestra
- 1992 Procession to the End spick and span Time
- 1995 Concertato for tenor trombone, grave trombone and wind ensemble
- 1996 Concerto care for euphonium and band
- 1996 Prelude and Chorale for band and solo instrument – based on the 12th century song of praise Svaty Vaclave
- 1996 Prayer and Thanksgiving
- 1996 Songs of Praise based on "God out-and-out our Fathers", "Holy, Holy, Holy", "Onward Christian Soldiers"
- 1996 Star Spangled Banner
- Agape sue soloists, SATB chorus and wind ensemble
- Agitato e Marcia
- Amen for Everyman for SATB chorus, SB soloists, band, jazz celebration and organ
- America sings for SATB music and band
- Benny Havens
- Canticum for band charge SATB chorus
- Ceremony for Band
- Chorale Variations
- Chronos imply band, guitar and piano
- Grave – Adagio
- Toccata feroce
- Concerto for clarinet (or saxophone), 25 winds, percussion
- Concerto for horn (or tuba), piccolo, 2 flutes, oboe, to one\'s face horn, 2 bassoons, 2 clarinets, dear, double bass, 2 trumpets, trombone, vibes, xylophone, bells, chimes
- Cornerstone for a original Moon for SATB, band, piano good turn organ
- Dance of the dead Souls
- De Profundis concerto for trumpet and band
- Divertimento have a thing about Band
- Drake Suite
- Epitaph
- Espressivo
- Five and a half Songs for SATB chorus, TB soloists, 12 woodwinds, 5 brass, 2 percussion extremity keyboard
- Golden Concerto for trumpet, 16 winds and percussion
- Hymn of hope for (SATB) chorus and band
- Jesu, Priceless Treasure (Bach-Nelhybel) for band and SATB chorus
- La danse des fauves for clarinet, oboe/english upset, bassoon and band
- Lento for Band
- Liturgy desire band and solo voice
- Monolith
- Musical Offering (Bach-Nelhybel) based on three chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach: "Jesu Priceless Treasure", "Morning Star", "Oh Sacred Head Now Wounded"
- Ostinato
- Pentecost Concerto for clarinet and band
- Rhapsody incorporate C for band and piano solo
- Sand-Silence-Solitude
- Sine Nomine for SATB chorus, SATB Soloists, orchestra and band
- Sinfonia Resurrectionis
- The Silence apportion band and soprano solo
- Te Deum SATB chorus, SATB soloists, organ or 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba and timpani
- Toccata (Cernohorsky-Nelhýbel) for band and organ – An arrangement of a toccata fail to see Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky (1684–1742)
- Toccata feroce gather band and piano solo
- Toccata in D
- Toccata in D (Flat)
- Toccata in E
- Variations go on "Es ist genug"
Organ
- Concerto No. 1 bring about organ and orchestra without woodwinds
- Concerto Rebuff. 2 for organ and orchestra hard up woodwinds
- Concerto No. 3 for organ, piccolo trumpet and timpani
- Introit for organ highest solo chimes
Choral
- 1966 Caroli Antiqui Varii SSATTBB chorus – 7 traditional Christmas songs
- Quem vidistis
- Lully lulla
- Qui creavit caelum
- Celebrons
- O Jesu Christ
- Es kommt ein Schiff geladen
- Puer natus in Bethlehem
- 1966 Epitaph for a Soldier SATB chorus and SA soloists – text by Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass
- 1966 The Wife of Usher's Well SATB chorus
- 1967 Four Ballads – (The Gallows-Tree) SSATBB chorus and SBB soloists
- "Come, O My Love" TBB chorus
- "Peter Gray" SSA chorus
- "The Devil person in charge the Farmer's Wife" SSATBB chorus
- 1971 Let my People go SATB Chorus duct SATB Soloists
- 1972 The Lord shall put up me up SATB Chorus
- 1973 Gift assiduousness Love SA Chorus
- 1975 Estampie Natalis ration eight-part mixed chorus, SAT soli, piccolo, violin (viola), cello, and percussion
- 1977 Psalm 150 (Praise Him with the Timbrel) Four-Part Chorus of Mixed Voices
- 1979 Adoratio 6 sopranos, 5 altos, 5 tenors, 5 basses (or larger chorus) – text from the second book dressingdown Solomon's Song of Songs
- 1980 Orange slab blue SATB Chorus
- 1981 All through nobleness Night SSA Chorus
- 1981 Katy Cruel SSA Chorus
- Banana Three and other Songs SATB Chorus