Czernogorsk Fugue

Composer: SVOBODA, Tomas
  • Written in 1956 and revised in 1991, Czernogorsk Fugue is an a cappella piece for mixed choir in Czech.1
  • The text of the work is a Czernohorska folk poem, “U Ivana gospodara” (“At Ivan’s Farm”).
    • *Full poem in PSU Chamber Choir album notes
  • Svoboda had a particular love of Baroque compositional techniques, which he happily infused into this choral work.2

Sources

  1. Tomas Svoboda, Czernogorsk Fugue (Portland: Thomas C. Stangland Co., 1994), 1.
  2. Essay in accompanying booklet, Portland State University Chamber Choir conducted by Bruce Brown, Albany 243, 1997, compact disc.

Cut IDs

46103