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Ladislav Kupkovič
12+ albums
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(born March 17, 1936) is a Slovak composer and conductor. Kupkovič was born in Bratislava, and studied violin and conducting there, first at the conservatory, then at the Academy of Performing Arts. He played violin in the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra from 1960 to 1965, and then began to write music for television and film to make a living. At the same time, he was writing more experimental music for concerts. In 1969 he won a music scholarship to West Berlin, and emigrated there the following year. In 1971 he conducted the premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mixtur in Cologne, a piece dedicated to Kupkovič himself. Although not a very well-known composer, Kupkovič has probably become best known for his experiments with the concert form in the 1970s. In Musik für das Ruhrfestspielhaus (1970), he arranged forty performers to play a number of pieces in a concert hall in Recklingshausen over the course of three hours. The pieces were played in various parts of the building, some of them at the same time. Kupkovič called this kind of concert a Wandelkonzert, and Wandelkonzerte have often invited comparisons to John Cage's Musicircus events. The idea was expanded for Klanginvasion auf Bonn (1971), for which 150 musicians played at various venues in Bonn over the course of twelve hours. There is some similarity here to Trevor Wishart's community pieces like Forest Singularity. Some of the music played in the Wandelkonzerte was written by Kupkovič himself, some of it by other pe
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Suite in D major for two cellos (1998): I. Allemanda
142Suite in D major for two cellos (1998): IV. Sarabanda
133Suite in D major for two cellos (1998): V. Giga
134Suite in D major for two cellos (1998): II. Menuett
135Suite in D major for two cellos (1998): III. Allegro
136Souvenir
107Osemhran samoty, nudy a strachu
38Ozveny
39Echoes for Orchestra (1965)
310Initiale
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Slovac Cello Music
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Slovak Cello Music
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VENI ensemble
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Surrealism in Music
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Staring Quartets
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Geen album
Elgar, Mozart, Dvořák, Kupkovič, Bamba, Ives & Bach: Music for Sendai
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Tri Kusy Pre 14 Nastrojov/ Skica Pre 6 Hracov-Osemhran/ Styri Kusy Pre Orchester/ Glosy Pre Dychove Kvinteto
Happy Birthday (Kremerata Baltica & Gidon Kremer)
Telemann, Mozart, Kirchner, Dancla, Lachner, Kupkovič & Bacewicz: Klangreise Für Vier Violinen (Bayreuth-Festival-Violinquartett)
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Gidon Kremer Edition (cd 7)
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Sudwestfunk Baden-Baden Experimentalatusio des Slowakischen Rundfunks in Bratislava