Edvard Schiffauer
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Tomáš Edvard Schiffauer (born 26 March 1942) is a Czech composer of classical music.
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| Born | Tomáš Edvard Schiffauer 26 march 1942 Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| 💼 Occupation | Composer, teacher of composition |
| Notable work | Music for Oscar Wilde's "Happy Prince" · Rural Christmas Mass (op.4) · Children's opera Vrat' nám, ptáku, Hastermana! (op.5) |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Věra Schiffauerová |
| 👶 Children | Jakub Schiffauer, Filip Schiffauer, Sylvie Schiffauerová |
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Biography
Edvard Schiffauer was born in Ostrava in an educated upper-middle-class family. However, the family’s living standards degraded after the communist 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état. In 1960, Schiffauer started his study in a preparatory course for the first grade of the Technical University of Ostrava, which included work in ironworks and in coal mines as well. [1] But, he did not complete it and instead started studying music in the Academy of Performing Arts.[2]
In 1961, Schiffauer and other students established the theater named Divadélko Pod okapem (“Little Theater under the Gutter”), which became an Ostravian version of Prague’s Semafor Theatre. Moreover, he was involved in the foundation of Divadlo Waterloo ("Theater Waterloo") and he composed music for the musical Syn Pluku (op. 3) ("Son of the Regiment") in 1968. This theater became banned by the authorities during the normalization era in Czechoslovakia and a large-scale court trial was held with those who had been involved in this theater. Schiffauer was expelled from the Academy of Performing Arts and sentenced to nine months of imprisonment for having composed music for that musical. He served his sentence in the prison in Pilsen-Bory, where he wrote a children’s opera Vrat' nám, ptáku, Hastermana! ("Bring us Hasterman back, Bird!") with his friend and later Charter 77 signatory Ivan Binar[3]. During the normalization era, Schiffauer was employed as a worker and he was being permanently interrogated by the State Security Police.[1] This experience was breifly summarized by Schiffauer in an interview published on YouTube in February, 2019. [4]
After the Velvet Revolution, Schiffauer was allowed to complete his university education (Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts) and could fully engage himself into composition of music. He was teaching in the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava and in the Silesian University (Opava).[1]
Works
| Opus Number | Title | Year | Notes |
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| 1 | Agent 3,14159 | 1969 | This is music for a theater play. This piece was premiered on the 2nd of December 1969 in the Theater Waterloo. [5][6] |
| 2 | Pamphlets | 1969 | Czech/original: "Pamflety". This is a collection of scenic music and songs. This piece was premiered on the 14th of january 1969 in the Theater Waterloo.[6] |
| 3 | Son of the Regiment | 1969 | Czech/original: "Syn Pluku". This satirical musical was the cause of Schiffauer's arrest in 1972.[1] This music was premiered the 1st of April 1969 in the Theater Waterloo.[6] |
| 4 | Rural Christmas Mass | 1969 | Czech/original: "Venkovská Vánoční mše". Words by Ivan Binar. This is one of Schiffauer's most well-known compositions. This piece is included in a CD named "Vánoce" (Christmas) (the CD also contains op.17 and op.21) released in 1998. This mass was premiered in the Church of Mokré Lazce by the Kostelní sbor a orchestr v Mokrých Lazcích (Church Choir and Orchestra of the Mokré Lazce).[7] Otherwise, this composition was performed in churches of Morava, Silesia, Poland, Slovakia and even the Netherlands and Denmark.[8](p.17-18) This piece was also published on Youtube.[9] Listen to this mass |
| 5 | Bring us Hasterman back, Bird![3] | 1973 | Czech/original: "Vrat' nám, ptáku, Hastermana!". This is an opera for kids. This is one of Schiffauer's most well-known compositions. Schiffauer wrote the plot of this opera in prison with Ivan Binar. This piece was released on a standalone CD named "Vrat' nám, ptáku, Hastermana!".[10] This opera was premiered on the 4th of September of 2015 in the Puppet Theater of Ostrava. [11] And under the title "Zob, Zob, Zoban!", this opera was premiered in the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, (in the Theater of Antonín Dvořák) on the 24th of September 2017. [12][13] Listen to a part of this piece.[permanent dead link] [14] |
| 6 | Teasing | 1975 | Czech/original: "Škádlení". Written for 3 mixed choirs and a Capella.[15] |
| 7 | Sneers | 1982 | Czech/original: "Jízlivosti". Written for male voice and harp. This Composition čas premiered in 1982 in a festival named "Hudební současnost" (Musical Contemporaneity), in Ostrava.[16] |
| 8 | Small evening entry fees | 1983 | Czech/original: "Malé večerní vstupné". Written for a French horn quartet.[17] |
| 9 | Sonata I for Violin and Guitar[18] | 1984-1985 | -- |
| 10 | Zoo Suite | 1984 | Czech/original: "Zoologická suita". Written for a brass quintet. This suite was premiered in 1985 in a festival named "Hudební současnost" (Musical Contemporaneity), in Ostrava.[19] |
| 11 | Hymn of Morava | 1985 | Czech/original: "Hymnus Moravy". Written for fourteen brass instruments. [20] |
| 12 | Sonatina I for French horn and Guitar | 1985 | -- |
| 13 | String Quartet: "Vzepětí" | 1989 | -- |
| 14 | Music to Go with White Wine (Best if from a Barrel) | 1992 | Czech/original: "Hudba k bílému vínu (Nejlépe sudové)". This composition was included in a CD. |
| 15 | ...and the Flower Remains | 1993 | Czech/original: "...a kytička zůstává". Written for flute, cello and piano. Upon the death of Schiffauer's mother, Marta Schiffauerová, he was very sad. But when he composed this piece, it put his sadness aside. The origine of this title is Schiffauer's memory of his mother's funeral, at which he saw a flower that became, to him, a symbol of his mother. This is what this piece is named after. |
| 16 | Crusade | 1994 | Czech/original: "Křížová výprava". This is a scenic oratorio buffo. |
| 17 | Christmas Singing at Home, or Elsewhere | 1994 | Czech/original: "Vánoční zpívání doma, i jinde". Written for mixed choir. This collection of carols from all over the world edited by Schiffauer was included in a CD named "Vánoce" (Christmas) (the CD also contains op.17 and op.21) released in 1998. |
| 18 | A Hare, a Hare! | 1995 | Czech/original: "Zajíc, zajíc!". This is music for theater. |
| 19 | Ondras and Juras; Lord of the Bald Mountain | 1996 | Czech/original: "Ondráš a Juráš; Pán Lysé hory". This is a tragic opera comedy. |
| 20 | Whispers | 1996 | Czech/original: "Šepoty". Written for female voice and a string trio. |
| 21 | 3 Small Christmas Pastorels | 1997 | Czech/original: "3 malé Vánoční pastorely". Written for a wind octet. These three pieces were included in a CD named "Vánoce" (Christmas) (the CD also contains op.4 and op.17) released in 1998. |
| 22 | Clevernesses | 1998 | Czech/original: "Chytrosti". Written for 3 female voices and a magnetic tape. |
| 23 | Singing about Rusalka | 1998 | Czech/original: "Spívání o Rusalce". This is music for theater and for musical preparation. |
| 24 | Czardas for solo tuba | 1999 | -- |
| 25 | Preludium and Toccata for Organ: "Sinful Toccata" | 1999 | Czech/original: "Hříšná toccata". |
| 26 | Nausikaa | 1999 | This is music for theater. |
| 27 | Sonatina II for French Horn and a Student Orchestra | 1999 | -- |
| 28 | Returns | 2000 | Czech/original: "Návraty". Written for solo bayan. |
| 29 | Variations on a Folk Song | 2000 | Czech/original: "Úlety s lidvou písní". Written for a female vocal trio, viola and guitar. |
| 30 | Pictures to Vernissage II, correctly Music to Vernissage II | 2001 | Czech/original: "Obrázky k vernisáži II, správně Hudba k vernisáži II". Written for harp. |
| 31 | Scream | 2002 | Czech/original: "Výkřik". Written for a string orchestra. |
| 32 | Fragment of a Neu-Baroque Sonata | 2002 | Czech/original: "Fragment neubarokní sonáty". Written for a string orchestra and violin. |
| 33 | Little Moravian Suite (or) Moravian Suitek | 2006 | Czech/original: "Moravský Suitek". Written for a clarinet quartet. "Suitek" is the name of a musical form invented by Schiffauer. The suffix "-ek" basically means "little" in Czech. Thus, "suitek" means "little suite". |
| 34 | Slépky | 2006 | Written for three flutes, a string orchestra and a whip. |
| 35 | Maid in Trouble | 2008 | Czech/original: "Komorná v nesnázích". Written for a soprano and violin. |
Unknown Dates
| Title | Notes |
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| But I, I... | Czech/original: "Ale já přece...". This is a dark grotesque opera. |
| Just like Tree Trunks | Czech/original: "Jako kmeny stromů". Written for a symphonic orchestra. |
| Sonata II for Solo Cello: "Jotunheimen" | -- |
| Moravian Boy on a Crossing in Sydney | Czech/original: "Kluk z Moravy na přechodu v Sydney". Written for solo piano. |
| About Love with Us | Czech/original: "O lásce u nás". Written for singing and piano. |
| A Fairytale about Love (A fantasy in three parts) | Czech/original: "Pohádka o lásce (Fantazie v třech částech)". This piece appeared in a CD released in 2011 named "Czech and Moravian Oboe Music". [21] This composition was once performed on the 11th of January of 2013 by Czech oboist Marlen Vavriková in the Madsen Recital and was assisted by BYU faculty pianist Jeffrey Shumway. [22] |
| Seven Variations for Piano | Czech/original: "Sedm variací pro klavír". |
| Music for Oscar Wilde's Tale "Happy Prince" from his Book "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" | Written for two female voices, recitation, violin and guitar. This is one of Schiffauer's most well-known compositions. |
| Christmas Flute Trio | Czech/original: "Vánoční flétnové trio". 2 movements of this piece are published on YouTube.[23] Listen to these 2 movements of this piece. |
| Monologue from Mrštík brothers’ play for solo voice "Maryša" [24] | This piece was premiered on the 13th of November 2019 in the Gallery, Academy of Performing Arts.[24] |
| Opera "Brenpartija", or "Scenes from Slag Heap" | Czech/original: "Opera "Brenpartija", aneb "Scény ze struskové haldy"". This composition was premiered on the 26th of May 2009 in the Lower Vítkovice.[25][26] Later, it was premiered on the 30th of October 2009 in the Komorní Scéna Aréna (Aréna Chamber Theatre). [27] |
External Links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://www.memoryofnations.eu/en/schiffauer-edvard-1942
- ↑ https://www.pribehynasichsousedu.cz/media/Životopis_edvarda_schiffauera.pdf
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Archived Copy". Archived from the original on 2019-12-26. Retrieved 2019-12-27.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS6MtB0LClU. YouTube (28 February 2019). Retrieved on 2019-12-26.
- ↑ http://m.schiffauer.webnode.cz/products/agent-3-14159-hudba-k-predstaveni-1969-/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divadlo_Waterloo
- ↑ https://www.musicbase.cz/compositions/13539-venkovska-vanocni-mse-pro-sm-sbor-symf-orch-a-varh/
- ↑ https://theses.cz/id/hm35we/diplomov_prce.pdf?lang=en
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vANm_J3X55w
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Ivan-Binar-Edvard-Schiffauer-Dismanův-Rozhlasový-Dětský-Soubor-Petr-Matuszek-Archioni-Plus-Micha/release/13497415
- ↑ https://www.dlo-ostrava.cz/repertoar-detail/vrat-nam-ptaku-hastrmana/115/
- ↑ https://www.operamusica.com/event/zob-zob-zoban
- ↑ https://www.ostravan.cz/43113/se-skladatelem-edvardem-schiffauerem-na-par-slov-pred-premierou-detske-operky-zob-zob-zoban/
- ↑ https://schiffauer.webnode.cz
- ↑ https://www.musicbase.cz/skladby/7178-skadleni/
- ↑ https://www.musicbase.cz/skladby/13531-jizlivosti-pro-muzsky-hlas-a-harfu/
- ↑ https://www.musicbase.cz/skladby/7175-male-vecerni-vstupne-pro-4-lesni-rohy/
- ↑ https://www.musicbase.cz/skladby/7176-sonata-pro-housle-a-kytaru/
- ↑ https://www.musicbase.cz/skladby/13530-zoologicka-suita-pro-zestove-kvinteto/
- ↑ https://www.musicbase.cz/skladby/7174-hymnus-moravy-pro-14-zestovych-nastroju/
- ↑ "Archived Copy". Archived from the original on 2015-10-23. Retrieved 2019-12-29.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ https://music.byu.edu/guest-artists/czech-oboist-marlen-vavrikova-plans-byu-recital-jan-11/[permanent dead link]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-NHcL0jkmk. YouTube (26 December 2014). Retrieved on 2019-12-26.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 https://www.musica.cz/en/days-of-contemporary-music-new-pieces-by-karel-mirosnik-marek-pavlicek-and-edvard-schiffauer/
- ↑ https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/kultura/1406409-janackuv-maj-se-vydal-za-brenpartaky-ze-struskove-haldy
- ↑ https://www.novinky.cz/kultura/clanek/opera-brenpartija-pojednava-o-ostravskych-bezdomovcich-ze-struskove-haldy-40227068
- ↑ "Archived Copy". Archived from the original on 2020-05-27. Retrieved 2019-12-30.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
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