Scene for Brass Instruments (Score & Parts)

Blatny Scene for Brass Instruments (Score & Parts)
for 2 trumpets, horn, 2 trombones

Pavel Blatny (b.1931) hails from a musical family (his father, composer Josef Blatny studied with Leos Janacek).

Having graduated from the Brno University (Musicology) and Conservatory, where he studied piano, conducting and composition, he started to study composition with Pavel Borkovec. The studies accented Blatny's inclination to neoclassicism which prefigured his first compositional period. It is characterised by Blatny's admiration for Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Martinu; he absorbed their artistic legacy and remelted it into an individual expression, featuring, among other things, independent application of two differing sound layers, which alternate in the course of the composition as two interlocutors (it is also denoted "the dialogue principle").