The unity of place and time in music – a concert in honor of Pavel Janák – Prague 1
To celebrate 140th anniversary of the birth of the architect Pavel Janák organized in cooperation with the festival Euro Art Prague a concert of music by selected Janák contemporaries – Bohuslav Martinů, Vítězslav Novák AND Josef Suk. Musicians from The Stamic Quartet, which are among the best chamber ensembles in our country. The concert will take place in clubhouse of the Czech Republic Auto Club, whose author is precisely Pavel Janák, who in the 1920s designed the reconstruction of the building in a purist style. The historian of the Autoklub ČR will give an opening speech about the architecture of the house and Janák’s work Bohumil Pácl. Take advantage of this unique opportunity and come listen to our leading composers in the representative spaces of cultural monuments!
Program of the evening:
Josef Suk: Barcarola and Ballade in D minor
- Barcarola / Andante con moto
- Ballade for string quartet in D minor
Bohuslav Martinů: String Quartet No. 7, “Concerto da Camera”
Vítězslav Novák: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 35, No. 2
- Fugue (Largo misterioso)
- Fantasia / Allegro passionato, ma non troppo, presto. Quasi scherzo. Allegretto moderato, ben ritmico. Tempo del comincio. Largo mysterious
String players Stamic Quartet to represent the Czech quartet school at the highest level at home and abroad. It was formed in 1985 after a meeting of four musicians – graduates of Prague’s HAMU. Since both violinists came from Havlíčkov Brod, the ensemble chose the name of Jan Václav Stamic, a native of the area, the best-known representative of the Mannheim school. The quartet has won numerous domestic and international prizes and has more than 80 CD recordings, many of which contain complete recordings of string quartets, e.g. A. Dvořák, B. Smetana, B. Martinů, L. Janáček, J. Klusák, A. Hába, K. Kovařovice, JB Foerster et al.
Pavel Janák is one of our most prominent and prolific architects of the first half of the 20th century. He studied with prof. Josef Zítek in Prague and prof. Otto Wagner in Vienna. After completing his studies, he briefly collaborated with Jan Kotěra. One of his first big commissions was Hlávka bridge in Prague, on which he worked with our leading bridge engineer František Mencle. Before the First World War, his collaboration with Josef Gočár, with whom Janák was connected at this time by the search for a national style. Probably Janák’s most famous work based on these tendencies is crematorium in Pardubicethen facades in Prague Palace of Adria. In the second half of the 20th century, he leaned towards the functionalist style in which they were presented, for example Julis hotel on Wenceslas Square or an urban solution Baba Colony. In the late 1930s, he was appointed architect of Prague Castle and began to pay considerable attention to reconstructions.
Automobile Club of the Czech Republic (ACR) continues the activities of the Automobile Club of the Czechoslovak Republic (AKRČs), whose history dates back to 1904. The club has a significant amount of sports events for the organization and organization of businesses in the republic, and its members included many internationally recognized motor sportsmen. The rapid development was stopped only in the II period. world war. The activities of the AKRČs were banned by the communist regime in 1948, and activities were not resumed until 1990.
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