Otomar Kvěch
composer (1950–2018)
Otomar Kvěch was born on May 25, 1950 in Prague. He studied organ play and composition at the Prague Conservatory and later at the Academy of Performing Arts (AMU) in Prague. He worked at the National Theatre and for the Association of Composers.
He was a dramaturgist of the music editorial office at Czech Radio; he also directed a composition department at the Prague Conservatory and taught musical analysis at the Academy of Performing Arts (AMU).
Kvěch is an author of various orchestral pieces (4 symphonies and concertante works), as well as of chamber compositions (i.a. 8 string quartets, 3 violin sonatas, lyric cycles, organ music, etc.) His creative aesthetics stand partly in opposition to so called Musica Nova.
He continues the line of European music which calls for equally harmonized means of musical creativity: melodic line, creative and harmonic logic, clear rhythmic spacing. He utilizes the technical "products" of modern composition tendencies, nevertheless he uses them prudently and chooses them only in those cases, when the intended musical expression requires so.
Titles for sale:
Cassandra and the Trojan Horse
Concerto idillico for Tuba and Orchestra / piano score
Expiatio
Sonata for Oboe and Piano
Storm and Peace, melodrama based on Ema Destinnová's poetry