Poemat zdenek fibich biography

Zdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music.
Zdeněk Fibich was born on 21 st December 1850 at Všebořice near Dolní Kralovice (in what is now the Czech Republic) into the family of a forester Jan Fibich.
However, Zdeněk Fibich's Poem boasts a melody that became famous precisely because of an alteration.

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Zdeněk Fibich

Along with Bedřich Smetana and Antonín Dvořák, Zdeněk Fibich rounds out the trio of Czech composers of the second half of the 19th century whose importance goes beyond the borders of Czech culture. A romantic to his very core, Fibich is a master both of the musical miniature and of the huge monumental fresco, his works reflecting the extraordinary homogeneity of his talent for drama and music.

He scored major successes in all genres of music including opera, symphonic poem, symphony, overture, song and chamber and piano works. He renewed and enriched the Czech repertoire with the concert melodrama, in which particularly as regards its structural aspect, he went beyond the German Romantics, developing it into a fully through-composed unity. His trilogy of staged melodramas Hippodamia (The Courtship of Pelops, The Atonement of Tantalus, The Death of Hippodamia) on a libretto by Jaroslav Vrchlický represents an absolutely unique creation. Another one of a kind work in the world’s musical literature is his 376-piece piano cycle called Moods, Impressions and Reminisc

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The best of Czech classical music, part five: Poem by Zdeněk Fibich

Zdeněk Fibich

Many works of classical music have been drastically altered in the revision process; whether a piece has survived numerous alterations has depended only on the potency of its musical idea. However, Zdeněk Fibich’s Poem boasts a melody that became famous precisely because of an alteration.

It is usually said that Poem is a part of At Twilight, a lovely symphonic work of about 13 minutes. However, few are aware that it is also part of another work, Moods, Impressions and Souvenirs, which was composed for the piano by Fibich.

Fibich’s personal life was filled with unhappiness. His children and first wife died tragically and he then married his late spouse’s sister in a chiefl pragmatic arrangement. Then, however, at the age of 42, Fibich fell madly in love with the much younger Anežka Schultz, whom he taught musical composition. She came from a prominent Prague family and his whole world was turned upside down by the affair.

Just as importantly, the composer’s newfound romance sparked an explosio

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CV - Zdeněk Fibich (1850 - 1900)

Childhood (1850–1859)

Zdeněk Fibich was born on 21^st December 1850 at Všebořice near Dolní Kralovice (in what is now the Czech Republic) into the family of a forester Jan Fibich (1819-1882) and his wife Marie Fibichová née Römischová (1823-1891). The parents had met during Jan's studies at the "k. k. Forst-Lehranstalt zu Mariabrunn“, a school for foresters, founded in 1813, in the Hadersdorf-Weidlingau district of today's Vienna. For the little Zdeněk this meant growing up in a bilingual German-Czech environment, which was nothing unusual at the time. He spent his early childhood at the forest lodge in the deep woods around Všebořice, in nature that was to remain an important source of inspiration to him for the rest of his life. His Symphony No. 1 is redolent of the mysterious atmosphere of the woods which he breathed during his early wanderings and games. On the father's side the Fibich family had been foresters and servants to the Auersperg nobility since the mid 18^th century, but Zdeněk's mother came from Vienna. Her father was an Austr