String Quartet "Lamentationes" - Eduard Douša

23. srpen 2010
Eduard Douša - String Quartet "Lamentationes"|foto:Nakladatelství ČRo

Eduard Douša (b. 1951) focuses mainly on instrumental music: he has composed three instrumental concertos with orchestra and more than twenty chamber compositions of various instrumental settings. The String Quartet bearing the subtitle “Lamentationes” is a revised version of an older composition from 1988. The original score was introduced to the public by and thanks to the Panocha Quartet. The adapted version comes from 2004 and it was premiered by the Apollon quartet.

Eduard Douša - Smyčcový kvartet "Lamentationes"Eduard Douša - Smyčcový kvartet "Lamentationes"Eduard Douša - Smyčcový kvartet "Lamentationes"

A one-movement piece, the quartet is essentially based on the platform of the sonata form. The composition is dedicated “to the memory of Mikuláš Medek”, whose visual art marked for its intellectual insight and expressive force has always attracted the composer. Following are Douša’s own words addressing the dedicatee: “One of the many reasons I think highly of him lies in the fact that he was always able to defend his own artistic means of expression and never yielded to temporary trends, whatever the might be. I believe that this is an imperative that should hold good for the present-day artistic production of any kind – not to give in to the pressure of modishness or other forces; but to create in compliance with one’s own feelings and beliefs with only one ultimate aim on mind – to communicate with the listener, onlooker or reader as intensely as possible...”

Other compositions by Eduard Douša published in Czech Radio:
Concert Music
Pezzo concertante
Rhapsody movement

instrumentationvno I, vno II, vla, vcldescriptionscore, partspubl. No.R 204price225,- CZK

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