PETR EBEN Czech Composer autographed photo, 1951 - well performed For Sale
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PETR EBEN Czech Composer autographed photo, 1951 - well performed:
$50.00
Autographed 6.5\" x 10\" presentation style photo on heavy stock of the important Czech composer, organist and choirmaster, January 27, 1951. It features a half tone photograph.
Afterhis releasehe was admitted to thePrague Academy for Music, and studiedpiano withFrantišek RauchandcompositionwithPavelBořkovec. He graduated in 1954. From 1955 Eben taught for many years in themusic history department atCharles Universityin Prague. Between1977 and 1978 he was professor of composition at theRoyal NorthernCollege of Music,Manchester, England.In 1990 he became professor ofcomposition at theAcademy of Performing Arts in Pragueand Presidentof thePrague Spring Festival.
Ebenrefused to join the Czech Communist Party and continued openly attendingchurch, thus forfeiting many career advancements before 1989. After theCommunist government crumbled, however, he was given several importantappointments and awards, among them presidency of the Prague Spring Festival(1989) and the Medal of Merit (2002). Among Eben\'s most important late works ishis 1992-1993 oratorio \"Posvátná znamení\" (Sacred Symbols). Despitedeclining health from a stroke in his final years, Eben remained busy,composing mostly organ and choral works.
ThePetr Eben International Organ Competition, held in Opava, Czech Republic, isnamed in his honor.
Overmore than half a century Eben produced a good deal of music in diverse genres.His earliest large works included his 1954 First Organ Concerto (the Secondcame in 1984) and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1960–1961). He wrotenumerous vocal, choral, symphonic, piano, and chamber works, but it was organmusic which remained his greatest love and in which he was most prolific.
Ebenwas considered a master atimprovisationon the organ and piano, butcomposition remained his main area of interest. However, many of his organcompositions in particular were based on his public improvisations. Theseimprovisations were the origin for the Two Choral Fantasies, Landscapes ofPatmos, and Job. Eben improvised and developed a cycle of organ movementsin the years from 1991 to 2003 based on excerpts fromJohn Comenius\'famous book,Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of theHeartthat became a published work in response to positive reception. His music has been widely performed andrecorded since about 1980, with his popularity still apparently on the rise.Stylistically, his musical language can be considered as\"neoexpressionistic\" in many ways, however in some works we can hearsome kind of new forms of impressionistic tendencies. He is often comparedwithOlivier Messiaen(the comparison is valid to some extent, inthat both men wrote a great deal of organ music, and quite often have examplesof their organ output included in the same recitals), but overall his style isless consistently experimental and voluptuous than Messiaen\'s.
Themajority of Eben\'s works has been published by Czech labelSupraphon. Somerecordings of his organ pieces were performed by himself. The Norwegianorganist Halgeir Schiager has recorded five CDs of Petr Eben\'s organ musiconHyperion Records. The German organist Gunther Rost has recorded 6 discsof Petr Eben\'s organ music on label Motette. The interpretation recorded onthis CD-SACD series was largely influenced by the composer\'s personalsuggestions and comments. The series compiles all of Eben\'s works for soloorgan which have been published to this date, played by Gunther Rost on variouscontemporary instruments. The speaker in both cycles, Job (vol. I) and TheLabyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart (vol. V, published in2008), isGert Westphal, one of Germany\'s most important contemporaryreciters. Some of his CDs feature works bySieglinde Ahrens. Petr Eben\'sMoto Ostinato from \"Sunday Music\" is played by English organistGillian Weir in her \"The King of Instruments\" series (Priory Records\'PRDVD 7001). The Canadian organist Philip Crozier, playing the Fulda Cathedralorgan, has also recorded a number of Eben\'s works on the Azimuth label.
PoctaKarlu IV., cantata, 1978
Missacum populo, 1982
Kletbya dobrořečení(Curses and Blessings), ballet, 1983
Hommageà Dietrich Buxtehude, organ, 1987
Job,organ, 1987
\"AFestive Voluntary: Variations on Good King Wenceslas\", organ, 1987
PragueTe Deum, 1989 (for mixed choir, 4 brass instruments, timpani and percussion ororgan)
\"Amen— es werde wahr: Choralphantasie für Orgel\", organ, 1994
Hommageà Henry Purcell, organ, 1994–95
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