Edvard Schiffauer
Tomáš Edvard Schiffauer (born 26 March 1942), more commonly known as Edvard Schiffauer, is a Czech composer of classical music. Schiffauer is mainly a composer of music for theatre. He moreover composed vocal pieces like operas, an oratorio, a mass and others, along with chamber music, such as sonatas, sonatinas, a string quartet, pieces for a brass quintet, a wind octet, a string trio and more.
- Leopold Schiffauer (father)
- Marta Dušková (mother)
Biography
Edvard Schiffauer was born in Ostrava in an educated upper-middle-class family. However, the family's quality of life degraded after the communist 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état. In 1960, Schiffauer started his study at the Technical University of Ostrava, which he discontinued,[1] but he completed his master's degree at the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Ostrava in 1964.[2] He also started studying musical composition in the Academy of Performing Arts.[3]
In 1961, Schiffauer and other students established the theatre Divadélko Pod okapem (Little Theatre under the Gutter), which became an Ostravian equivalent of the Semafor Theatre, in Prague. Furthermore, he was involved in the foundation of the theatre Divadlo Waterloo (Waterloo Theatre) and wrote the music for the musical Syn Pluku (op. 3) (Son of the Regiment) in 1968. Later, the Waterloo Theatre was banned by the authorities in the normalization era in Czechoslovakia and a large-scale court trial was held with those involved in the theatre. Schiffauer was expelled from the Academy of Performing Arts and sentenced to nine months of imprisonment as a result of having composed for Syn Pluku.
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He served his sentence in the prison in Pilsen-Bory, wherein he wrote the children's opera Vrat' nám, ptáku, Hastermana! (Bring us Hasterman back, Bird!) with the author Ivan Binar, his friend and later Charter 77 signatory.[4] Schiffauer was employed as a worker and was being permanently interrogated by the State Security Police throughout the normalization era.[1] This experience was briefly summarized by Schiffauer in an interview published on YouTube in February 2019.[5]
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 taught in the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava and in the Silesian University in Opava.[1]
Works
Opus Number | Title | Year | Notes |
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1 | Agent 3,14159 | 1969 |
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2 | Pamphlets | 1969 |
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3 | Son of the Regiment | 1969 |
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4 | Rural Christmas Mass | 1969 |
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5 | Bring us Hasterman back, Bird![4] | 1973 |
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6 | Teasing | 1975 |
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7 | Sneers | 1982 |
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8 | Small Evening Entry Fees | 1983 |
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9 | Sonata I for Violin and Guitar[19] | 1984–1985 | – |
10 | Zoo Suite | 1984 |
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11 | Hymn of Morava | 1985 |
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12 | Sonatina I for French Horn and Guitar | 1985 | – |
13 | Vzepětí String Quartet | 1989 | – |
14 | Music to Go with White Wine (Best if from a Barrel) | 1992 |
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15 | ...and the Flower Remains | 1993 |
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16 | Crusade | 1994 |
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17 | Christmas Singing at Home, or Elsewhere | 1994 |
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18 | A Hare, a Hare! | 1995 |
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19 | Ondras and Juras, Lord of the Bald Mountain | 1996 |
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20 | Whispers | 1996 |
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21 | Three Small Christmas Pastorels | 1997 |
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22 | Clevernesses | 1998 |
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23 | Singing about Rusalka | 1998 |
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24 | Czardas for solo tuba | 1999 | – |
25 | Sinful Toccata, Prelude and Toccata for Organ | 1999 |
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26 | Nausikaa | 1999 |
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27 | Sonatina II for French Horn and a Student Orchestra | 1999 | – |
28 | Returns | 2000 |
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29 | Paraphrase on a Folk Song | 2000 |
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30 | Pictures to Vernissage II, Correctly Music to Vernissage II | 2001 |
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31 | Scream | 2002 |
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32 | Fragment of a Neu-Baroque Sonata | 2002 |
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33 | Little Moravian Suite or Moravian Suitek | 2006 |
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34 | Chickens | 2006 |
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35 | Maid in Trouble | 2008 |
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36 | Five on Five | 2020 |
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37 | Three-Flute Pele Mele for Fiala the Rabbit | 2021 |
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38 | Transatlantic Serenade | 2020-2022 |
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Unknown Dates
Title | Notes |
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But I, I... |
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Just like Tree Trunks |
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Jotunheimen, Sonata II for Solo Cello | – |
Moravian Boy on a Crossing in Sydney |
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About Love with Us |
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A Fairytale about Love, Fantasy in three Parts |
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Seven Variations for Piano |
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The Happy Prince |
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Monologue from Mrštík brothers' play for solo voice Maryša[25] |
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Brenpartija, Scenes from Slag Heap |
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References
- ^ a b c d "Edvard Schiffauer (1942)". memoryofnations.eu.
- ^ "MGR. Edvard Schiffauer – LKMŠ Ostrava".
- ^ "Životopis Edvarda Schiffauera" (PDF).
- ^ a b "Schiffauer, Binar: Vrať nám, ptáku, hastrmana (představení není v současné době na repertoáru)". Dismanův rozhlasový dětský soubor. 7 January 2008. Archived from the original on 26 December 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS6MtB0LClU. YouTube (28 February 2019). Retrieved 26 December 2019.
- ^ "Agent 3,14159 – hudba k představení (1969) :: Edvard Schiffauer". m.schiffauer.webnode.cz.
- ^ "Venkovská vánoční mše, pro sm. sbor, symf. orch. a varh. | musicbase.cz". musicbase.cz.
- ^ Kristýna Vladíková. Písňová tvorba Edvarda Schiffauera, pp. 17-18
- ^ "Chrámový sbor a orchestr v Hluku: Venkovská vánoční mše – půlnoční 2015" – via YouTube.
- ^ "Ivan Binar, Edvard Schiffauer, Dismanův Rozhlasový Dětský Soubor, Petr Matuszek, Archioni Plus, Michal Macourek – Vrať Nám, Ptáku, Hastrmana". Discogs. 2009.
- ^ "Vrať nám, ptáku, hastrmana". dlo-ostrava.cz.
- ^ "Zob, zob, zoban!!! (Edvard schiffauer)". operamusica.com.
- ^ Bátor, Milan (19 September 2017). "Se skladatelem Edvardem Schiffauerem na pár slov před premiérou dětské operky Zob, zob, Zoban!!!". ostravan.cz.
- ^ "Tsjekkisk kulturuke | Ringsakeroperaen – Operaglede for scene og sal". Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Edvard Schiffauer". schiffauer.webnode.cz.
- ^ "Škadleni". musicbase.cz.
- ^ "Jízlivosti, pro mužský hlas a harfu". musicbase.cz.
- ^ "Malé večerní vstupné, pro 4 lesní rohy. | musicbase.cz". musicbase.cz.
- ^ "Sonáta pro housle a kytaru | musicbase.cz". musicbase.cz.
- ^ "Zoologická suita pro žesťové kvinteto | musicbase.cz". musicbase.cz.
- ^ "Hymnus Moravy, pro 14 žesťových nástrojů. | musicbase.cz". musicbase.cz.
- ^ "Three-Flute Pele Mele for Fiala the Rabbit". Retrieved 24 December 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Czech And Moravian Oboe Music – Centaur Records: CRC 3079". ArkivMusic.
- ^ "Czech oboist Marlen Vavriková plans BYU recital 11 Jan". 4 January 2013.
- ^ a b "Days of Contemporary Music: new pieces by Karel Mirošník, Marek Pavlíček and Edvard Schiffauer". musica.cz. 14 November 2019.
- ^ "Janáčkův máj se vydal za brenparťáky ze struskové haldy". ČT24. Česká televize.
- ^ "Opera Brenpartija pojednává o ostravských bezdomovcích ze struskové haldy". Novinky.cz. 21 May 2009.
- ^ "Aréna – Brenpartija". divadloarena.cz.
External links
- Schiffauer, Edvard | musicbase.cz
- Dílo :: Edvard Schiffauer