Vojtěch Saudek
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Vojtěch Saudek (February 11, 1951, Prague, Czechoslovakia - September 13, 2003, Villejuif, France) was a Czech composer of classical music and a translator from English and German.
Family background[edit]
Vojtěch Saudek was born on February 11, 1951, in Prague into a translators family with family ties to Franz Kafka. His father was the Czech translator Erik Adolf Saudek (1904–1963) (from English, German and French, he translated most of plays by William Shakespeare into czech).His mother was a Czech editor (and translator from German into Czech) Věra Saudková (1921–2015; née Davidová) - Franz Kafka's niece His brother, one year older, is a French translator, Vladimír Saudek (* February 12, 1950). His son Nathan (* 1987) is a painter.
Studies[edit]
Vojtěch Saudek has been studying English-Czech philology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague since 1974. From 1977 to 1983 he studied piano with Anna Machová, conducting with Jiří Chvála and composition with Jiří Dvořáček at the Faculty of Music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. [5] His diploma thesis was dedicated to the work of Svatopluk Havelka. He has lived mainly in Paris since the late 1970s. At the Paris Conservatory, he studied classical composition with Guy Reibel and computer composition and electroacoustic composition with Tristan Muraill at the IRCAM in Paris.
Sources and inspiration of the work[edit]
Vojtěch Saudek was an expert on the life and work of William Shakespeare and Franz Kafka. In some of their works he found inspiration for his compositional work. In 1996 he translated part of Kafka's correspondence - Letters to Ottle and the Family from German into Czech, and in 2005 he continued to translate another part of Kafka's written communications - Letters to the Family.
He was awarded the Leoš Janáček Prize by the Czech Music Society for his opera Memnon. In 1986, Saudek created the Excursion to the Mountains (for 11 instruments, mezzo-soprano, based on a text by Franz Kafka) for the Festival de L'Ile-de-France, which he successfully premiered at the Ensemble Camerata de Versailles. Saudek won the 2nd prize in the Ostrava "Generation" competition for the work of Shakespeare's character. In 1986, he also won second prize for the symphony in the Young Composers' Competition of the Czech Socialist Republic. He received the first prize for his concert for piano and orchestra In Memory of Gideon Klein (Saudek is the editor of Gideon Klein's work). The dog's research, commissioned and often performed by the French ensemble L'Itinéraire, was part of the Sienna New Music Festival program in 1990.
Some of Saudek's works were premiered by German soprano Stephanie Haas.
Saudek's composing focus is in the field of orchestral, chamber and vocal music. He had a special relationship with the texts of Shakespeare and Franz Kafka - father Erik Adolf Saudek was a translator of Shakespeare's works into Czech, his mother was Kafka's niece (daughter of Otto Kafka).
Vojtěch Saudek succumbed to a brain tumor.
Works[edit]
Orchestral works[edit]
Symphony Orchestra (1980)
Symphony (1982)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in Memory of Gideon Klein (1985)
Concertino for two trumpets, organ and percussion (1998)
Fantasy for Violin and Chamber Orchestra (1981)
Stage works[edit]
Memnon or Human Wisdom based on Voltaire's short story. Chamber Opera (1987)
Diptyque Aristophane-les Acharniens / Lysistrata, theatrical musical (1993)
The Ugly Duckling based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, children's opera (1994)
Sappho, theatrical musical (1996)
Heath Bride, the musical Spectacle by A. Stramm (1999)
Vocal music[edit]
What will not pass Production and singing with lyrics by William Shakespeare, for soprano and orchestra (1981)
Shakespeare's Characters for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano (1983). EN 1993 by Stephanie Haas and Susan Wenckus
Excursion to the mountains for 11 instruments, mezzo-soprano and spoken voice with texts by Franz Kafka (1986)
Chamber music[edit]
Fantasy for Flute and Piano (1982)
Concertino for Flute and String Quartet (1983)
DX7II Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and Synthesizer Quintet (1988)
Lullaby for clarinet, violin and piano (1989)
Arc-en-ciel a quatre voix for ballet, singer and live electronics (1990)
Dog Research for Violin and Electroacoustic Instruments (1990)
String Quartet No. 2 (1990)
Community of Villains - a cantata for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra based on texts by Franz Kafka and Ottla Davidová-Kafka (1994). UA of Ensemble 2e2m, DE 1997 of Stephanie Haas and Ensemble sur scène.
Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello (1997)
The Great Lalula and Other Gallows Songs by Cheistian Morgenstern for mezzo-soprano and percussion (1999) (UA 1999 Stephanie and Christoph Haas)
Elegy for cello and synthesizer DX 7 II
The Whole World for Solo Voice (2001)
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