vladimir lebl (4 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. In English, as translated by Jean Layton-Eislerova. Includes two photographs. No markings noted; cover with some exterior wear.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Slight wear.

Prague: Svaz ?eských skladatel?, 1968-1970. Large octavos (29.8 × 21 cm). Original decorative staple-stitched wrappers: 53, [2] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Very good. Two issues (of four published) of this rare periodical on electronic music edited by the musicologist and pioneer of electronic music Vladimir Lébl (1928-1987), and published by the Union of Czech Composers. The issues include reproductions of works of Hans Hartung, Piet Mondrian, and Alison Knowles among others, highlighting the connection between music and visual arts - which was key for the Czechoslovak audiovisual artist Milan Grygar, who designed the issues. Each issue had a thematic focus, with the first two issue themes being "Composer and the world" and "Avant-garde yesterday and today" respectively. The topics of the remaining issues were "Experiments" (3) and "Analyses" (4). Two more issues "Young generation" (5) and "Music and speech" (6) were planned but never published due to the suppression of the periodical after the fourth issue. Lébl's work was crucial to establishing experimental electronic music in Czechoslovakia. He organized conferences on New Music in 1964 and 1965, and helped equip studios such as the Experimental Studio of Czech Radio Pilsen. In 1966 he published Elektronická hudba [Electronic music], a monograph on the history and methodology of electronic music, which was one of the first sources on the topic available in socialist Czechoslovakia. In his book Lébl discussed experiments by Pierre Schaeffer, Werner Mayer-Eppler, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the Studio für elektronische Musik in Munich and Studio Eksperymentalne in Warsaw. The first issue of this periodical was released two years later, continuing many of the themes of the monograph. Likely due to the suppression of the publication, issues of the journal are extremely rare. As of March 2026, not in KVK, OCLC.

Saddle-stitched. First edition. Complete run. All issues illustrated with black-and-white reproductions. Saddle-stitched. 52 [4]; 52 [4]; 52 [4]; 62 [2] p. Scarce, complete set of four issues of the magazine Konfrontace, dedicated to experimental contemporary music, published by Vladimír Lébl until its ban in 1970. Issue 1 "The Composer and the World" features an in-depth article which chronicles the nearly decade-long efforts to form the experimental music association The Prague New Music Group (Prazska skupina nove hudby) and its battle with the "rigid, monolithic cultural and political regime" and its "iron dictate, tyranny and bureaucratic bullying". Contributors include Vladimir Lébl, Josef Berg, Jan Klusák, Zbyn?k Vost?ák, and Walter Wiora. With two black-and-white reproductions of works by Mondrian. Issue 2 "Avant-garde yesterday and today" focuses on contemporary and interwar avant-garde tendencies. It includes an article comparing the views of Karel Teige in 1922 and Luigi Nono in 1969, an essay by E. F. Burian on New Music from the 1920s, Karel Reiner's writing on interwar avant-garde activities and Vladimir Lebl's thoughts on the crisis of the avant-garde, as well as Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt's review of the Prague music scene. With two black-and-white reproductions of works by Hans Hartung. Issue 3 "Experiment" features the translatons of Pierre Boulez's study Alea and John Cage's, History of Experimental Music in the United States, as well as a richly illustrated article on Milan Grygar's so-called acoustic drawings, and an interview with Charles Csuri. Issue 4 "Analysis" includes reviews on the works of Miloslav Kabelá?, Lubo Fier, Marek Kopelent, Alois Pi?os, Zbyn?k Vost?ák ad Karel Risinger, all with reproductions of sheet music. Illustrated with the works of Ferdinand Kriwet. Vladimír Lébl (19281987) was a Czech musicologist, theatre and music publicist. He co-founded the Prague New Music Group (Praská skupina Nové hudby). In the 1960s Lébl was involved in the setting-up of the Electronic Committee at the Union of Composers and organised thematic conferences and an international seminar on New Music. Lébl started publishing the magazine Konfrontace in 1969 which got banned in 1970. Extremely scarce, we could trace copies only in the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the library of Masaryk University. . A few barely visible stains to the covers here and there. Issue 4 with original printer correction of the title (paper paste-down) and a small damage to the rear cover. Overall all issues are in fine condition. First edition. Complete run. All issues illustrated with black-and-white reproductions.