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Discussion: Schulhoff: Chamber Music Vol. 4 - Prazak Quartet/Kocian Quartet

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Post by denis September 24, 2006 (1 of 1)
In 1925, Ervín Schulhoff was at the peak of his transitory glory and this programme get together all the most original and virtuos chamber works, for strings, played in 1923-25. Her neo-classical writing has succeeded in blending expressiveness, playful nature, authentic Bohemian poetics and innovative jazz influences : a clear picture of “degenerate” music” according Goebbels, ten years later. This famous pianist (of jazz included) was one of the most generous and disinterested actor driving forces in German and Central European culture of the time. The crisis of 1929, followed by the rise of Nazism, would progressively isolate him. As militant communist, he took Societ nationalility in 1939 but was arrested the day after the termination of the German-Soviet pact and interned at Wülzburg (Bavaria) where he died on 18 August 1842.

The Five Pieces for string quartet are meant to a suite of dances in the pre-Classical style and dedicated to Darius Milhaud. The Duo violin-cello was written to “the Master Leoš Janáček as a token of profound respect)”. The Concertino is offering a savoury synthesis of “stravinskian” humour and “debussyan” plays of timbre, whereas the String Sextet, beginning in Spring 1919 under the influence of the Schoenberg of Verklärte Nacht, is moving in a more ardent and sorrowful climax.

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