František Xaver Thuri

The character of his compositional production earned him the nickname “the last Prague Baroque master”, since he composes exclusively in the style of the 17th- and 18th-century music.

He writes both sacred and secular music, and his compositions are often recorded (e.g. for companies such as Auviere, V + M Agency, The Holy Mountain or Lupulus). He applies himself to studying the music of old masters, and has processed and reconstructed many scores of early music.

Apart from that he also arranges works by composers of other periods (e.g. the Humoresque by Antonín Dvořák arranged for violin and string orchestra). He attended the Prague Conservatory, studying oboe with Adolf Kubát, organ with Ladislav Vachulka and Jaroslav Vodrážka, and composition with Jaroslav Kofroň, Miloslav Kabeláč, and František Brož.

He then continued his oboe studies at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts under Vítězslav Winkler. From 1963 he was an oboist with the Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, and in the year 1965 he moved to the Prague Chamber Orchestra where he was engaged as a dramaturge, oboist, English hornist, and harpsichordist. The year 1977 marked the beginning of his pedagogical career at the Prague Conservatory.

As an oboe teacher he educated a number of outstanding soloists and orchestral players at this school. He was a member of many instrumental groups, such as the chamber ensembles Pachta’s Chamber Harmony or Collegium Xaverium. He also held the position of art director of the Prague Madrigalists.

Titles for sale:
Humoresque op. 101, No. 7 - Antonín Dvořák / instr. F. X. Thuri

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