Name: PRELUDE AND FUGUE - Nelhybel
Duration: 4 min 37 s
Channel: Vaclav Nelhybel
Description: Free MP3 download. COMPOSED BY INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED CZECH COMPOSED VACLAV NELHYBEL IN 1966. HE WROTE MANY PIECES FOR CONCERT BAND: FESTIVO, DIVERTIMENTO, AND HIS MOST POPULAR TRITTICO, ARE ALL LISTED HERE. PERFORMED BY THE 1968 UNIV. S. MISSISSIPPI SYMPHONIC BAND.

PRELUDE AND FUGUE - Nelhybel

Symphonic Band Performances

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COMPOSED BY INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED CZECH COMPOSED VACLAV NELHYBEL IN 1966. HE WROTE MANY PIECES FOR CONCERT BAND: FESTIVO, DIVERTIMENTO, AND HIS MOST POPULAR TRITTICO, ARE ALL LISTED HERE. PERFORMED BY THE 1968 UNIV. S. MISSISSIPPI SYMPHONIC BAND.

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Symphonic Band Performances

Contemporary band compositions, classical music arrangements, marches, jazz, symphonies, overtures. A collection from bands that I have played in throughout hi

Hello and welcome! "Symphonic Band Performances" is a compilation of recordings from several high school and college bands that I played in including the TMEA (Texas) All State Band, the TMEA Region X All Region Band, the Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp, the Cal Poly Tech Band, San Luis Obispo, the USAF Golden West Band, and recordings from my h.s. band, Beaumont H.S. and a few band recordings that were passed down to me. Also included are various All State groups and college and university bands. I participated and played in the large majority of these recordings. There are no professional recordings here and every recording is Public Domain. Most are available for free download. Each song has been converted from the original analog or digital source and edited with Audacity or Dak software. In the majority of these recordings, I play the tenor sax or alto sax, b flat or e flat clarinet, or directing. I was drum major for 2 years in high school, I have a BA from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, where I studied music ed, composition and theory. I had about 500 more recordings I was planning to digitize and upload, but this past Nov. 20th, my home was completely destroyed by fire, and all the contents, including all my music and instruments. So, this is it. Please feel free to post a comment here or on my member page. If you like, please become a fan by clicking "I'm a fan" below.

Song Info

Genre

Classical • Baroque

Charts

Peak #36

Peak in subgenre #3

Author

Vaclav Nelhybel

Rights

public domain

Uploaded

November 11, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 7.4 MB • 224 kbps • 4:37

Story behind the song

Internationally renowned composer Vaclav Nelhybel was born on September 24, 1919, in Polanka, Czechoslovakia. He studied composition and conducting at the Conservatory of Music in Prague (1938-42) and musicology at Prague University and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. After World War II he was affiliated as composer and conductor with Swiss National Radio and became lecturer at the University of Fribourg. In 1950 he became the first musical director of Radio Free Europe in Munich, Germany, a post he held until he immigrated to the United States in 1957. Thereafter, he made his home in America, becoming an American citizen in 1962. After having lived for many years in New York City, he moved to Ridgefield and Newtown, Connecticut, and then, in 1994, to the Scranton area in Pennsylvania. During his long career in the United States he worked as composer, conductor, teacher, and lecturer throughout the world. At the time of his death on March 22, 1996, he was composer in residence at the University of Scranton. 

A prolific composer, Nelhybel left a rich body of works, among them concertos, operas, chamber music, and numerous compositions for symphony orchestra, symphonic band, chorus, and smaller ensembles. Over 400 of his works were published during his lifetime, and many of his over 200 unpublished compositions are in the process of being published. (Nelhybel's passion for composing was all encompassing and left him little time for "marketing" his works; for this reason, many of his compositions, though commissioned and performed, remained unpublished.) Although Nelhybel wrote the majority of his works for professional performers, he relished composing original, challenging pieces for student musicians and delighted in making music with young players.