Tadeáš Salva - Vrchárska (Variácie na ľudovú pieseň Borovka, borovka

Описание: Tadeáš Salva - (b Lúčky pri Ružomberoku, 22 Oct 1937; d Bratislava, 3 Jan 1995). Slovak composer. From 1953 to 1958 he studied the cello, accordion and piano at the Žilina Conservatory and took private composition lessons with Zimmer. He continued his composition studies under Alexander Moyzes and Cikker at the Bratislava Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts; before graduating, however, he left for Poland to study with Szabelski at the Katowice State Higher School for Music. He worked for Czechoslovak radio in Košice (1965–8), as a producer at Czechoslovak television in Bratislava (from 1968) and, for a number of years, as dramaturge for the Slovak Folk Art Group. From 1991 to 1995 he was president of the Union of Slovak Composers.
The originality of Salva’s music lies in its synthesis of archaic Slovak folk models and avant-garde compositional techniques. His compositions are based on modal melodies related through counterpoint. His music’s metre is particularly flexible: frequent polyrhythmic and polymetric sections combine with Lutosławski’s principle of framed aleatorism. A central part is often played by the human voice, singing or reciting. Although Salva’s style is distinctly influenced by the Polish school, his musical vocabulary is highly individual. His aesthetic is most successfully expressed through the ballad, a highly emotional form which in this instance combines folk derived material with European avant-garde techniques. Margita a Besná (1971) and Plač (‘Tears’, 1978) were the first Slovak operas written for television and radio, respectively. The latter opera’s contrapuntal sections are created solely by electro-acoustic sounds – multilayered, pre-recorded vocal lines. Many of Salva’s works have won national and international awards, including the Silver Medal at the Musica Sacra festival in Rome (1968) for Requiem aeternam.