František Sláma

František Sláma , born the November 19th 1923 in Herálec (Moravie, Czechoslovakia) and dead the May 5th 2004 with Říčany (Czech Republic), was the first Czech Violoncelliste , which devoted its life to the old Musique, in particular baroque. Musician of room, publicity agent, pedagog.

Biographical data

Born in a poor area from Moravie, he worked up to 18 years like a day laborer in the forest and the quarry stone. Thanks to Karel Pravoslav Sádlo, a known pedagog of violoncello (and a friend of Maurice Marshal), it could start to study the music. In 1941 Sádlo gave him the first lessons of play to the violoncello. He was also his professor with the Conservatoire (1942-48) and with the Faculty of Czech Music of l´ Académie of the musical arts of Prague (1948-52).

In the years 1948 -1981 Sláma was member of the Czech Philharmonic orchestra (since 1962 the second violoncello solo and the team leader of the violoncellos). It occurred as a soloist with the Czech Philharmonic orchestra and the Chamber orchestra Ars Rediviva.

Musician of room

Since 1946 he studied the Chamber music at Václav Talich. He was founding member of legendary the Czech Chamber orchestra Talich (founded 1946), with which p.ex. Pierre Fournier and Germaine Leroux was presented to Prague.

He was also founding member of l´ together Ars Rediviva (1954-1997), which played a fundamental role in the rédecouverte of the Baroque music in Czechoslovakia, and in the years 1953-1976 violist of " Pro arte antiqua" , one of the oldest European units devoting itself to the interpretation of the Music of the Rebirth (founded 1933). With the violonist Eugen Prokop and the harpsichordist Josef Hála it founded the " Trio Prague" baroque;.
With these units it recorded more than 50 discs for Supraphon, Panton, DGG, Ariola, Columbia Records, Japanese, Sony Classical (distinctions: Grand Prix of the Disc of the Academy Charles Cros, " Lion d´or of Supraphon" , etc).

Publicity agent

František Sláma taught with the Academy of Prague, translated sources of the interpretation of the old music, collaborated with the Radio Czech (it presented l´art Jordi Savall to the Czech public). In its book " Z Herálce C Šangrilá has zase nazpátek " (" D´ Herálec in Shangri it ") he remembers the events of music in Prague in the Forties ninety of the XXe century, of his colleagues, the leaders (Talich, Barbirolli, Cluytens, Karajan, Kleiber, Klemperer, Kletzki, Kubelík, Maazel, Mackerras, Markewitch, Matačić, Mravinsky, Münch, Pedrotti, Rojdestvenski, Sawallisch, Stokowski, etc) and other characters whom he met (p.ex. Adorján, André, Baker, Honegger, Mainardi, Menuhin, Milhaud, Navarra, Noureev, Oistrakh, Rampal, Richter, Szeryng, Sudek, Tortelier).

Files of František Sláma

The files that František Sláma offered to its birthplace Herálec contain around five thousands of negative and photographs, more than 150 hours of recordings of the sound and a great quantity of documents on the Czech Philharmonic orchestra, the Czech Chamber orchestra, Václav Talich, Milan Munclinger, Ars Rediviva, etc a share of recordings of the sound is deposited with the Czech Museum of music in Prague (see external Liens).

External bonds

Files of František Sláma
Discography d´Ars Rediviva
Radio operator Prague, recordings of František Sláma
Radio operator Prague, recordings d´Ars Czech Rediviva
Dictionary of the music
WorldCat Libraries (November 2007)
Czech Museum of music

See too

'' L´art of Jean-Pierre Rampal ''
J.S.Bach Home Page, Ars Rediviva, '' Brandenburger concertos ''
J.S.Bach Home Page, Ars Rediviva, '' the art of the running away ''
J.S.Bach Home Page, Ars Rediviva, '' the musical Offering ''
ABC Classic FM, June 2007

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