Piano
SKU:
PA.H07911
Fur
Klavier. Composed by
Luboš Fišer.
Stapled. Performance
score. With Text
Language:
Czech/German/English.
Editio Baerenreiter Praha
#H07911_00. Published by
Editio Baerenreiter Praha
(PA.H07911).
ISBN
9790260104457. 31 x 23.5
cm inches.
Lubos
Fiser (1935-1999) was one
of the most talented
Czech composers of his
generation. Born in
Prague, he studied at the
Prague Conservatoire from
1952-1956 and then at the
Academy of Music. He was
known to the public for
his many film scores but
it was his other
compositions, many of
them written under
difficult political
conditions, which mark
him out as a composer of
significance.
Fise
r's eight piano sonatas
have a special place in
his oeuvre. Fiser
subsequently eliminated
his second sonata (1956)
from his compositional
repertoire. From the
third sonata onwards
(1960), subtitled
Fantasia, the composer
wrote a two-movement
composition, in which he
continued to incorporate
as his fundamental
musical device the
confrontation of sharp
contrasts in tempo and
mood. Beginning with his
fourth sonata
(1962-1964), Fiser
created a single-movement
work in an expressive,
formally focused
composition which betrays
a progression towards
greater compactness of
musical shape in a
concise yet effective
musical testimony. The
fifth sonata was written
in 1974, the sixth sonata
in 1978. The seventh
sonata from 1985 was
dedicated to Frantisek
Maxian, the eighth sonata
was written in
1995.
Piano Sonata
No.1 was written in 1955.
Fiser worked on it during
his last year at the
Prague Conservatoire
under the supervision of
Emil Hlobil. The piece is
one of Fiser's early
works which still respect
a traditional
compositional approach.
Unlike his major and late
piano sonatas, this
sonata has three
movements, each
representing the
traditional
Classical-Romantic form.
The sonata was premiered
by Fiser's fellow-student
and friend Antonin
Jemelik in Theatre D34 on
30 January
1956.
The new
setting for this piece is
based on the single
edition to date (SNKLHU,
1957); only with regard
to a few inconsistencies
in the score was it
necessary to consult the
composer's manuscript
(kept at the National
Museum - Czech Museum of
Music, acquisition number
297/2006).