- Pavel Štěpán
Prof. Pavel Štěpán (
28 May 1925 -30 September 1998), has linked up in his career with his family's musical tradition: He is the grandson of ProfessorVilém Kurz , a prominent Czech piano educator, and the son of piano virtuoso and teacherIlona Štěpánová-Kurzová and musicologist/pianistVáclav Štěpán . His family maintained close personal contacts with the composerJosef Suk , and actually received instructions for the interpretation of his piano output from the composer himself. Pavel Štěpán made his first public appearance at the age of sixteen, two years later to make his debut performance with theCzech Philharmonic (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor K 491 ), playing under the baton ofRafael Kubelík . In 1971 and 1982 he received theWiener Flötenuhr award for the year's best Mozartian recording, and in 1978 his reading of the complete piano works ofJosef Suk was presentedSupraphon Golden Disc as recording of the year.References
* [http://www.musicabona.com/stepan_pavel/cd/index.html.fr CD Pavel Štěpán]
* [http://www.musicabona.com/catalog/SU3820-2.html. Josef Suk:Piano work]
* [http://cgi.ebay.at/Mozart-Die-grossen-Klavierkonzerte-BOX-5-LP-rar_W0QQitemZ140104930533QQcategoryZ19495QQcmdZViewItem Mozart-Die grossen Klavierkonzerte - BOX 5 LP]
* [http://www.supraphon.cz/cs/katalog/databaze-titulu/detail-titulu/?idtitulu=2007302 W.A.Mozart Piano concerto No.23 A major K488]
* [http://www.supraphon.cz/cs/katalog/databaze-titulu/detail-titulu/?idtitulu=747 Josef Suk:Piano trio op.2, Piano quartet op.1]
* [http://www.mozarteum.at/03_Wissenschaft/03_Wissenschaft_TonFilm_Chron.asp?SID=1029629016212038&PAGE=4&YEAR=1987-1989 Mozarteum]
*Dr.Zdeňka Böhmová-Zahradníčková: Vilém Kurz, SNKL n.p. Praha 1954
*Hudební rozhledy 6/1973
* [http://encyklopedie.seznam.cz/heslo/100931-stepan Encyklopedie Seznam]
* [http://www.supraphon.cz/cs/katalog/databaze-titulu/detail-titulu/?idtitulu=2007299 Souhrnné klavírní dílo Josefa Suka]
* [http://hudebnirozhledy.scena.cz/index.php?cid=62&cl=419 Šedesát let AMU a její hudební fakulty ]
* [http://www.cfn.cz/detail_osoba.php?oid=96447 Film music]
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