PT Journal
AU Cupakova, B
TI Zdenek Fibich as a Song Composer?
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2022
BP 305
EP 320
VL 33
IS 2
DI 10.5507/mo.2021.017
DE Song; Zdenek Fibich; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
AB The composer Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900) is seldom associated with vocal compositions. More often is expressed Fibich's affinity with opera and melodrama even though he set songs throughout his career. Fibich set to music more than two hundred German and Czech texts. Songs to poetry by Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were created the most. Thus songs to Goethe's poems are the core of the study.Fifteen solo songs, three duets, two choral works, and the incidental music Clavigo were written during Fibich's study period from 1865 to 1873. Only ten solo songs and the duet O tobe snim (I Dream about You, Hud. 172/7) have survived up to day. These compositions, with the exception of the duet, remained only in the autograph until two years ago when the first publication was issued. The study introduces selected songs in order to characterise Fibich's early compositional language as well as to highlight inspirations by German composers, namely Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.
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