Fantasia Op.9 (Clarinet & Piano)

Felix, Vaclav

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Felix Fantasia Op.9 (Clarinet & Piano)

The composer Vaclav Felix (1928-2008) 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 was Deputy Chairman of the Union of Czech Composers and Concert Artists (until 1989).

Vaclav Felix grew from an atmosphere of domestic chamber music-making and as a student cooperated with choirs.  This distinctly influenced his development as a composer and the orientation of his creation: chamber and vocal genres have quantitative prevalence among his compositions.  His manuscripts are characterised by austerity in the use of means, clean guidance of voices, care for each part to be well playable as well as lilt of melodic invention and effort for musical expression of concrete human emotions.  These typical chamber and vocal principles are applied also in his symphony and stage works.

(source: musicbase.cz/composers)

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20th Century
Clarinet