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Zdeněk Tylšar (29 April 1945 – 18 August 2006) was a Czech
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and music pedagogue, brother of hornist
Bedřich Tylšar Bedřich Tylšar (born 9 July 1939 in Vrahovice, Prostějov, Second Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech Republic, Czech horn player and music pedagogue. He is the brother of hornist Zdeněk Tylšar, and a long-term member of the Czech ...
. He was the principal hornist and leader of the horn section with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra for almost 40 years. During his career, he created numerous recordings and performed worldwide.


Biography

Tylšar was born in
Vrahovice Vrahovice is a village and administrative part of Prostějov in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,300 inhabitants. Geography Vrahovice lies in the Upper Morava Valley. The watercourses Romže, Hloučela and Valová flow t ...
. He began studying violin, later switched to trumpet, and at the age of 12 he began to play the
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. Since 1958, he studied at the Brno Conservatory and later continued at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, under František Šolc. He graduated in 1964. In 1965, he became a member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, where he worked for more than four decades. In 1968, he was appointed principal hornist and leader of the horn section of the orchestra. In 1962 he won the 3rd prize at the
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brass competition. In 1968, he won the 1st prize and became a laureate of the same competition. In 1969, he won a special prize at a competition in Munich interpretation competition in Geneva. He has worked with a number of renowned conductors and orchestras, such as London Chamber Orchestra, Kammerorchester der Wiener Symphoniker, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Helsinki Philharmonic, etc. His repertoire included the most renowned compositions for horn by Telemann, Zelenka,
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, Weber, Rejcha, Hindemith, Carl and Anton Stamitz and others. Since the 1970s, he made several solo recordings (i. e. for
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and Supraphon). He was also a sought-after chamber musician. Together with his brother Bedřich (born 1939), he made recordings of horn duets, and collaborated with several chamber orchestras, such as Collegium Musicum Pragense, Ars Rediviva, Collegium tripartitum and Solistes Européens Luxemburg. Since the 1970s, he taught at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Professor since 1997). He was an associate professor and juror of international music competitions in Czechoslovakia and abroad (Prague Spring, Munich,
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). Radek Baborák, former principal horn player of the
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, said in an interview: (''"Pro mou generaci hornistů byl naprostým vzorem hudebníka. Naštěstí natočil velké množství nahrávek, které jsme si kupovali a nábožně poslouchali. Vždycky na nás působil jako přirozený suverén a obdivovali jsme, kolik toho všeho zvládne. Večer vystupoval v Německu, přes noc se vrátil, odehrál zkoušku ve filharmonii a hned odtud odjížděl na další sólový koncert. Žil naplno."'')


References


Literature

*'' Rudolfinum Revue'' 2004/05, I, pp. 18–21 *Tomeš, Josef et al.: ''Český biografický slovník 20. století/II'' (Paseka, Prague, 1999) * Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians (1997)


External links


Recordings by Zdeněk Tylšar
at the website of Supraphon
Recordings by Zdeněk Tylšar
at the website of
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tylsar, Zdenek Czech classical horn players People from Prostějov 1945 births 2006 deaths 20th-century classical musicians Brno Conservatory alumni Academic staff of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague Players of the Czech Philharmonic Prize-winners of the ARD International Music Competition