Fantasia bucolica - Lukáš Sommer
Lukáš Sommer (*1984) has started his career by studying the guitar at the Conservatory in České Budějovice. In 2003 he was nevertheless admitted to the Prague Conservatory where he became the last student of the composition class of Věroslav Neumann. After one year of studies he moved to AMU (Academy of Performing Arts in Prague) into the composition class of Ivan Kurz.
Fantasia bucolica has been written thanks to the initiative of an outstanding clarinetist and professor of the Conservatory in České Budějovice Zdeněk Zavičák. The piece has a clear three-movement form; its musical discourse is rather moderate, factual, and at times pointedly tonal. The author carefully chose the name Fantasia bucolica to bring to the listener the world of origin of the piece that is the world of simple medieval bucolic poetry and especially one of its specific forms - the Frottola. This original inspiration was nevertheless disturbed; in the face of recent family events Sommer's wild fantazy was interupted and a "prayer for life" slipped silently in.
Other compositions by Lukáš Sommer published in Czecg Radio:
Concerto for Harp and Orchestra
Impromptu
Thanksgiving
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