Milan Munclinger (3 July 1923, in Košice,

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– 30 March 1986, in

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, Czechoslovakia) was a significant

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, conductor, composer and musical scientist.

Biography

Munclinger was the son of Josef Munclinger, an operatic bass and opera-stage manager at the National Theater Prague. His mother was an actress at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. After graduation at the

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in 1948, Munclinger studied conducting (he was a pupil of

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) and composition at

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. In 1952 he also graduated in musical science, aesthetic, philosophy and oriental studies at Charles University.

Editor and translator

Since 1946 he devoted himself to Baroque music. For the first time ever he translated Arnold Dolmetsch's ''The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries Revealed by Contemporary Evidence'' and several other major HIP works into

. He discovered and edited a large number of archive compositions (he collaborated e.g. with

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Music Publishing, IMC, New York and Bärenreiter-Verlag). He also participated in ''Musica Antiqua Bohemica'' series – his František Benda and

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flute concerti recordings from 1955 to 1956 were awarded

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- flute, Milan Munclinger – conductor, Prague Chamber Orchestra/Ars Rediviva, Supraphon SUA 190 37, in part reedited in 2002. - See External links: ''Benda, Stamitz, Rosetti Flute Concertos''). In 1951 he founded the ensemble

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whose performances and recordings played an important role in the revival of Baroque music in Czechoslovakia.

Other activities

He also occupied himself by jazz improvisation and premiered compositions of modern composers (

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), a number of new works were written for him. He conducted orchestras (e.g. Czech Philharmonic, Prague Radio Orchestra) as well as ensembles focused on early music (Ars Rediviva Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Musici de Praga). He was a co-founder of the Czechoslovak

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and of the Czech Society for Early Music. Since the 1970s he taught the performance and study of old music at the

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in Prague.

Collaboration with Jean-Pierre Rampal

With his teacher and friend Jean-Pierre Rampal he collaborated from 1951 till his death in 1986. He was a juror at music performers' competitions (Concours de flûte Jean-Pierre Rampal, 1980 and 1983) and lecturer at performance courses in Bayreuth and

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(Académie Internationale d'Été Jean-Pierre Rampal). He dedicated to Rampal e.g. his reconstructions of

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's concerts BWV 1055, 1056 and 1059. Rampal wrote about Munclinger in his book ''Musique, ma vie'' (English: "Music, My Love", Random House, 1989) and dedicated to him his 1986 recording for CBS of C. P. E. Bach flute concertos.

External links

* František Sláma Archive
Milan Munclinger in Documents and ReminiscencesMilan Munclinger and Ars RedivivaArs Rediviva Discography: Recordings with Supraphon and Panton
Documents - Photographs - Sound Archive *
Czech Radio: Milan Munclinger's recordings

WorldCat Libraries, Milan Munclinger

J.S.Bach Home Page
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Muzikus.cz: ''Jean-Pierre Rampal and Milan Munclinger''

''Benda, Stamitz, Rosetti: Flute Concertos'', Supraphon, 2002

''Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos'', reconstruction Milan Munclinger, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Ars Rediviva

Radio Prague: ''Ilja Hurník, Milan Munclinger, Ars Rediviva''

The Czech Museum of Music, Recording Library

References

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