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Václav Felix
5+ albums
2jumagammarecczech contemporary
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Czech composer, born March 29th, 1928 in Prague, died in 2008. The composer Václav Felix studied piano, violoncello, musical theory and composition privately even as a secondary school pupil. He later passed a graduation course at the Prague Conservatory and went to study composition at the Faculty of Music of the Prague Academy of Performing Arts in the class of Pavel Borkovec and Vaclav Dobias (graduated 1953). He completed his education with three-year post-graduate studies with musical theoretician Karel Janecek, earning a doctor's degree in philosophy and the title of Candidate of Science. He worked as an editor of the "Hudebni Rozhledy" magazine, and as Secretary of the Union of Czechoslovak Composers. From 1960 to 1990 he was teaching at the Faculty of Music of the Prague Academy of Performing Arts, since 1973 as Assistant Professor, since 1979 as head of the department of theory and history of music (from 1985 as Professor, and also appointed Dean of the Faculty, until 1989). Since 1978 Felix had been Deputy Chairman of the Union of Czech Composers and Concert Artists (until 1989). Václav Felix has won many distinctions and recognitions for his efforts so far. These include the Prize of the Czech Minister of Culture (1976), the title of Artist of Merit (1978), the Prize of the Union of Czech Composers and Concert Artists (1980), and the National Prize for opera Mariana (1988). Václav Felix grew from an atmosphere of domestic chamber music-making and as a student
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Čtyři kosmické písně pro smíšený sbor na slova českých básníků, Op. 11: Noc
12Země živá, Op. 38: I. Lípy
13Země živá, Op. 38: II. Okno otevřené do noci
14Země živá, Op. 38: III. Májový chór
15Sonata à tre, for violin, viola & harp, op.28: I. Pezzo drammatico
16Sonata à tre, for violin, viola & harp, op.28: II. Pezzo elegiaco
17Sonata à tre, for violin, viola & harp, op.28: III. Scherzo agitato (att.)
18Sonata à tre, for violin, viola & harp, op.28: IV. Passacaglia grave (att.)
19Above the Crib, Op. 41C: I. Preludio
110Above the Crib, Op. 41C: II. Sonatina
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