Music for Piano - Ilja Hurník
The first works of the composer, pianist and writer Ilja Hurník (1922 - 2013), appeared as soon as in 1933; those early works are still relevant as classical instructive literature today. Since then Hurník's development continued smoothly without any style shifts. In 1938 Hurník's family had to flee to Prague because of the Sudeten annexation. The loss of his native Silesia has been compensated by the opportunity to become a student of pronounced teachers Vítězslav Novák for composition and prof. Vilém Kurz for piano play.
"Throughout the past sixty years I have spent as a concert pianist, the piano has always kept me quite busy, so that as a composer I have kept my distance from the instrument for a long time. With years going by, however, one tends to return to the roots. And since my roots, after all, spring from this instrument, I decided to return to it in this composition. It has a four-movement sonata form, though the music is, for the most part, of a concertante nature. Making use of all facets of the piano, the piece explores it as a melodic, virtuoso, playful, and percussion instrument."
Other compositions by Ilja Hurník published in Czech Radio:
Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra - score
Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra - piano score
Symphony in C
Twelve Piano Preludes
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