Fibich - Symphonies Nos 1 2

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Cat No: 8553699

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099469920

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Fibich - Symphonies Nos 1 2

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Zdenek Fibich (1850 - 1900)Symphony No.1 in F major, Op. 17Symphony No.2 in E flat major, Op. 38 The province of Bohemia had long been a rich source ofmusic and musicians in the Habsburg Empire, of which, with Moravia, it hadbecome part in 1526. The nineteenth century allowed the resurgence of nationalismin many countries. In Bohemia the political changes of 1848 proved largelydisappointing, but there was at the same time a gradual movement towards the encouragementof Czech currents in the arts, with an official use of the Czech language whichstill met recurrent and at times successful opposition from the Pan-Germanparty. In music Bedrich Smetana played an important part in the development ofa sense of national identity, reflected particularly in his operas and in his tone-poemcycle Ma Vlast. A figure of still greater importance was Antonin Dvorak,with music that was imbued with the spirit of his native region. Zdenek Fibich was born in 1850 in Vseborice near Caslav,the son of a senior forestry official and of a German-speaking mother from Vienna,the latter his early teacher. His schooling was German, in Chrudim and in Vienna,before study in 1862 and 1863 at the Czech Gymnasium in Prague. At home he hadlearned the piano with his mother and in 1862 had written his first compositionand after his studies at the Gymnasium he briefly became a student in a privatemusic school, writing composition after composition. In 1865 he entered theLeipzig Conservatory, where his uncle Felix Dreyschock, concertmaster of the GewandhausOrchestra and younger brother of the pianist and composer Alexander Dreyschock,court pianist in St Petersburg and professor of piano at the Conservatory, wasprofessor of violin. Fibich studied at the Leipzig Conservatory with Moscheles,the Thomascantor Ernst Friedrich Richter and Liszt's pupil Salomon Jadassohn.In 1868 and 1869 he spent eight months in Paris and continued his education,finally, at Mannheim in 1870 as a pupil of Vinzenz Lachner. Thereafter, after ashort time at his parents' house, he moved to Prague, where he settled, after ayear spent in Vilnius, following his marriage. In 1874 he returned to Pragueand after the death of his two children and his wife married his sister-in-law,a contralto soloist at the opera. He earned his living at first aschorus-master and deputy conductor at the Provisional Theatre and for threeyears, from 1878, as choirmaster at the Russian Orthodox Cathedral. After thishe devoted himself to his work as a composer, holding no official positions inthe Prague musical establishment until the last year of his life, when heserved as dramaturg at the Prague National Theatre. By this time he had partedfrom his wife and their son, to join his pupil Aneika Schulzova, eighteen yearshis junior and the author of the libretti of his last three operas. Hisrelationship with her in the 1890s is reflected in piano pieces of the time,notably Nalady, dojmy a upominky (Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences),
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