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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
Royal Northern College of Music
František Jan Škroup Piano Trios Op.27 and Op.28
This pair of publications constitute the first modern scholarly editions of chamber music by the Czech composer František Jan Škroup (1801–1862), and offer new insights into the musical language of this relatively neglected, but significant composer. Each exemplifies specific stylistic and idiomatic characteristics of accessible mid-nineteenth century Czech music performed in the salon. As an important musician in the national Czech revival movement, Škroup’s stage works – works which make up the majority of his oeuvre – display a conscious attempt to imbue music with the spirit and substance of Czech folk idioms. That assimilation was neither wholly manifest nor successful until later in the century, recognised and exemplified today in the music of Smetana and Dvořák, but Škroup’s un-texted chamber music from the 1840s show him to be a seminal figure, in the establishment of a national voice in Czech music. The editions are modern ‘Urtexts’ designed for use by performers and respond to the rigorous scholarly requirements and apparatus required by Bärenreiter, collating all existing primary source materials.
