Elena Petrová, née

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 Krupková (9 November 1929 – 2002) was a Czech composer. She was born in Modrý Kameň

Modrý Kamen

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, and studied piano with Karel Hoffmeister and composition with Jan Kapr

Jan Kapr

Jan Kapr was one of the most prolific Czech composers of the second half of the 20th century.- Life :He studied at the Prague Conservatory, as a pupil of Jaroslav Řídký, and at the master school under Jaroslav Křička. In 1939–1946 he worked as a director in the Czechoslovak Radio...

 and Miloslav Istvan

Miloslav Ištvan

Miloslav Ištvan was a Czech composer whose work was inspired by the works of Béla Bartók and by the orientation of the modal style of folk songs. He studied Romanian and African folklore...

 at the Janáček Academy of Music

Janácek Academy of Music and Performing Arts

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. After completing her studies, she taught music theory at the Charles University in Prague

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.

Works

Petrová composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble, stage and opera performance, choral and vocal works, and incidental music for ballets, television and radio. Selected works include:

Stage

• Slavík a růže (The Nightingale and the Rose), Ballet after Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
  
   (1969)
• Podivuhodná raketa (The Remarkable Rocket), Ballet after Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
  
   (1970)
• Slunečnice (Sunflower), Ballet after Ovid
  Ovid
  Publius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria...
  
   (1973)
• Kdyby se slunce nevrátilo (Should the Sun Not Return), a six-act opera after Si le soleil ne revenait pas... by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
  Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
  Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer.He was born in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud and educated at the University of Lausanne. He taught briefly in nearby Aubonne, and then in Weimar, Germany. In 1903, he left for Paris and remained there until World War I, with frequent...
  
   (1982–1983)

Orchestral

• Symphony No. 1 (1968)
• Slavnostní předehra (Festive Ouverture) (1975)
• Symphony No. 2 (1976)
• Smutecní hudba (Mourning Music; Trauermusik) (1981)
• Passacaglia (1982)
• Slavnostní hudba (Festive Music) (1982)
• Symphony No. 3 (1990)
• Longing Odysseus

Chamber music

• Eklogy (Eclogues) for bass clarinet (1965)
• String Quartet No. 1 (1965)
• Sonata for viola and piano (1966)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1967) - received II. prize at the international competition in Philadelphia, 1968
• Invokace (Invocation) for bass clarinet and piano (1972)
• Pantomima (Pantomime) for viola d'amore solo (1973)
• Capricci for bass clarinet and piano (1991)
• String Quartet No. 3 (1991)
• Capriccia (Capriccios) for bass clarinet and percussion (1992)
• Čarování (Sortilegio) for flute, piano and percussion (1997)
• Mýty (Myths), 4 Pieces for flute solo (1998)
• Sonata for violin and piano

Keyboard

• Sonata No. 1 for piano (1960)
• Inspirace (Inspirations) for piano 4-hands (1973) - received I. prize at the international competition in Denver, 1975
• Impromptus I. (Impromptu No. 1) for piano (1976)
• Preludium a passacaglia (Preludium and Passacaglia) for organ (1980)
• Impromptus II. (Impromptu No. 2) for piano (1991)
• Sonata No. 2 for piano (1992)
• Čtyři impromptus (4 Impromptus) for piano (1996)
• Preludia (Preludes) for piano

Vocal

• Písně o čase (Songs about Time) for baritone and piano (1958)
• Madrigaly "Catulli liber carminum", Madrigals for mixed chamber chorus (1966, revised 1976)
• Noci (To the Night), Cantata for tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra (1968); words by Vítězslav Nezval
  Vítezslav Nezval
  Vítězslav Nezval was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia....
  
  
• Pět slovenských písní (5 Slovak Songs) for men's choir (1969)
• Vzývání (Invocation), Song Cycle for male chamber chorus (1977); words by the composer
• Tanbakzan, Melodrama for speaker and chamber chorus (1981)
• Komedie dell'arte for voice and piano (1991)
• Sluneční sonáta (Sunny Sonata) for soprano and piano (1992)
• Nářek královny Ningal (Mourning of Queen Ningal) for soprano and chamber chorus (1992)
• Oranžové vánky (Orange Breezes), Song Cycle for baritone and piano (2000); words by Federico García Lorca
  Federico García Lorca
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• Akvarely (Watercolours), Song Cycle for men's choir
• Písně starého měsíce (Songs of an Old Moon) for soprano and chamber orchestra
• Žluté balady (Yellow Ballads) for voice and piano

Discography

• Česká soudobá hudba – Klavírní tvorba (Contemporary Czech Music – Piano Works) – Český Rozhlas CR 0124-2 231 (1999)

Impromptus pro klavír (4 Impromptus for Piano); Jana Palkovská (piano)

• Due Boemi – Česká soudobá hudba (Due Boemi – Czech Contemporary Music) – Supraphon SU 811441-2; Panton 81 1441-2111 (1995)

Invokace (Invocation) for bass clarinet and piano; Josef Horák

Josef Horák

Josef Horák was a Czech bass clarinetist.It was not until the 1950s that classical performers began to adopt the bass clarinet as their primary instrument...

 (bass clarinet); Emma Kovárnová (piano)

External links

• Czech Music Information Centre: Composers and Composition Database (Hudební Informační Středisko: Databáze skladeb a skladatelů)