PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Matzner, Michal
TI  - WORKS FOR ORGAN BY MAREK KOPELENT
DP  - 2007 Jun 11
TA  - Musicologica Olomucensia
PG  - 167--178
VI  - 9
IP  - 1
IS  - 27879186
AB  - The study called Works for Organ by Marek Kopelent is concerned with three composer's pieces for organ, which come from three phases of the composer's work: Hallelujah (1967), Morning Eulogy (1978) and Der Gnade Freude (1999). We can say that in terms of moving towards the stimulations of the New Music Kopelent absorbed in the middle of the 1960's Hallelujah for organ is the most radical by any means. The work with the instrument is quite unusual from the point of view of the time period, when it was written, and this has also been reflected in the acoustically sharp picture of the composition.Morning Eulogy may be viewed as a sort of milestone in terms of the crystallization of the composer's personal style. In addition to the New Music elements also the purely tonal planes have been applied here. Due to the intense confrontation of these two worlds the Morning Eulogy has a very poetical character. The last composer's piece for this instrument - Der Gnade Freude, is "the most classic" one. Unlike his previous compositions the composer returns to the traditional notation rather than using the proportion notations. Even if we cannot speak about a deflection from the avant-garde in the sense of, say, Krzysztof Penderecki development there is a stronger link to the development line of the organ work of the second half of the twentieth century comparing to the first piece by Kopelent composed for this instrument. It is also remarkable that with the exception of four pieces for twelve singers in the "madrigalian" cast and the above mentioned compositions for organ the composer has not written any other pieces for one instrument. The fact that the essay addresses works composed during a relatively long period makes the Kopelent composition development well observable.