Sokol Fanfare
Subtitle: 1st Movement from Sinfonietta
General Info
Year: 1926 / 1975
Duration: c. 3:35
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Universal Edition
Cost: Score and Parts - $32.95
Instrumentation
Full Score
B-flat Trumpet (9)
Bass Trumpet (2)
Tuba I-II
Timpani
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Sokol Fanfare was originally one of several fanfares that Janáček composed for a Sokol Slet (Falcon Festival), a gymnastic event in Prague. Founded in Prague in 1862 and still active today, the Sokol movement is an all-age gymnastics organization based upon the principle of “a strong mind in a sound body.” The movement spread across Eastern Europe and beyond, and influenced organizations such as the Boy Scouts.
Composed for brass and percussion in 1926, Sokol Fanfare later became the opening movement of Janáček’s Sinfoniett for full orchestra. With broad sonorities and pounding rhythms, it evokes the sight of a falcon soaring over rugged landscape below, symbolizing the Sokol ideal of staying above politics.
– Program Note by Matt Sadowski for the University of Georgia Hodgson Wind Ensemble concert program, 15 November 2016
Media
- Audio CD: University of Missouri-Kansas City (Mo.) Conservatory Wind Symphony (Steven D. Davis, conductor) - 2010
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- WASBE Youth Wind Orchestra (Prague, Czech.) (Timothy Reynish, conductor) – 23 July 2022 (WASBE Conference, Prague, Czech Republic)
- West Chester University (Penn.) Wind Ensemble (Andrew Yozviak, conductor) – 27 September 2018
- North Dakota State University (Fargo) Wind Symphony (Warren Olfert, conductor) - 3 December 2017
- Los Alamos (N.M.) Community Winds (T. Edward Vives, conductor) – 21 October 2017
- University of Missouri, Kansas City, Wind Symphony (Steven D. Davis, conductor) – 17 September 2017
- University of Georgia (Athens) Hodgson Wind Ensemble (Matthew Sadowski, conductor) – 15 November 2016
- Willimantic (Conn.) Orchestra 4 May 2014
- University of Missouri-Kansas City (Mo.) Conservatory Wind Symphony (Joseph Parisi, conductor) – 18 December 2010 (2010 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Ballad of Blanik
- Capriccio (ed. Faltuš and Burghauser) (1926/1953/ 2010)
- Lachische Tänze (arr. Belohoubek)
- Marsch der Blaukehichen (arr. Hawlin) (1995)
- Mládí (1924)
- Prophecy and Death of Taras Bulba, The
- Sinfonietta Fanfare for Band (arr. Blahnik) (1926/2007)
- Sinfonietta Fanfare for Brass Choir and Timpani
- Sokol Fanfare (1926/1975)
Resources
- Janáček, L. (1975). Sokol Fanfare : 1926 : First Movement from Sinfonietta for Brass Ensemble [score]. Universal Edition: [Wien].