Svatopluk Havelka - Hommage à Hieronymus Bosh, symphonic fantasy

(1974) Hommage à Hieronymus Bosh, symfonická fantasie pro orchestr Česká filharmonie, Václav Neumann - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Neumann EN Svatopluk Havelka (1925-2009) was a czech composer of contemporary and film music. He studied composition privately with Karel Boleslav Jirák. From 1990 he worked as a proffesor of composition on Prague music Academy (AMU). In his ouevre, he treats in his own way with techniques of „Musica nova“. Beginning in the late 1970s his attention became focused on Christian subjects, and he composed many biblically based chamber works and choral-orchestral pieces. The external impulse for the writing of symphonical fantasy Hommage à Hieronymus Bosch was request by the conductor, Václav Neumann. Here, the composer created an original musical evocation of the fantasy-lit pictures of the late-mediaval Dutch painter, who managed to bring a spellbinding vision of human passions and fates int