FOSTERING BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC
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Jindrich Feld, Composer: b. 1925 - d. 2007 Prague Czech Republic

JINDRICH FELD
​ QUINTETTE


​Jindrich Feld - Biography
Jindrich Feld was born
 into a family of musicians in Prague in 1925. He learned to play the violin and viola with his parents, taking lessons in composition at the Conservatory and at the Academy of Music of his native city while earning a Ph.D. in musicology, aesthetics and philosophy at the Charles University in Prague.  Read More

ANNAPOLIS BRASS QUINTET (1975)
David Cran, trumpet;  Robert Suggs, trumpet; Calvin Smith, horn;  
Tim Beck, trombone;  Robert Posten, bass trombone


Annapolis Brass Quintet
​performance of 

JINDRICH FELD'S QUINTETTE
composed in 1972
Recorded by Bavarian Radio
​Munich, Germany 6 November 1975

​Duration 13:11
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Jindrich Feld:  Quintette 
1) Allegro   2) Adagio  
3) Scherzo-Allegro vivo     4) Andante-Allegro molto

Jindrich Feld was a leading Czech composer​ whom musicologists have described as a musician who was close to his own generation.  He came to prominence with his 1955 radio opera A Fairytale about Budulinkove, which was followed by a children's opera ​The Postman's Tale in 1956.  

His Concerto for Chamber Orchestra (1957) incorporated the serial and 12-tone techniques of Schoenberg's 
 'Second Viennese School', but his works do not succumb to this influence and on the contrary concentrate on incorporating elements of the  Czech musical style.  The creative nature of Feld's work is reflected in the exceptionally direct sense of music making and the apparent ease with which the composer creates.

Feld's Quintette, composed in 1972, is a significant major work for brass quintet.  Its four movements are both subtle and obvious in motivic relationships.   Although the Scherzo movement contains a twelve-tone row, the work is in no way a strict serial composition.  The Annapolis Brass Quintet's 1976 album Quintessence (Crystal Records S206) included the premiere recording of Quintette by Jindrich Feld.

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 ​for allowing brassquintetforum.com exclusive rights to publish this recording of Jindrich Feld's Quintette as an audio stream solely for non-commercial purposes.

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The score and parts for Jindrich Feld's Quintette, along with the entire ABQ music library, are available for research and performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Library.
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