Stanislav Ondráček

Ondráček’s merits lie in his arrangements and realisations of many orchestral, chamber, and sacred compositions by Czech composers of the 18th century, some of which came out in print both home and abroad.

The most numerous are his arrangements of Antonín Rejcha’s works, from whose output he has arranged the following compositions: the cantatas Lenora, The New Psalm (Nový žalm), and Requiem, six symphonies, the Variations for violoncello and orchestra, overtures, arias, and many chamber pieces.

In 2003 Rejcha’s Requiem was recorded on CD by the ORFEO München Company. Ondráček’s arrangements of Pavel Vranický’s Quartetti per archi, op. 16, No. 1-6 were published as a part of the Musica Antique Bohemica edition. Other published compositions include for example the Divertimento for violin, viola, violoncello, and two French horns by František Xaver Dušek, and the Serenata for flute and viola by Carl Khym, a Czech oboist and composer of the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Ondráček began paying systematic attention to the realization of compositions in the 1970s, at which time he was cooperating with the Musici di Praga ensemble and their dramaturge Jiří Teml. Owing to their mutual effort such compositions as V. Pichl’s or J. J. Rösler symphony could be performed. In the field of sacred music Ondráček also edited compositions by Antonín Vranický, Jan Křtitel Tolar, and others (J. K. Vaňhal, F. X. Dusík, L. Koželuh, F. V. Kramář, Liehman, and F. I. Tůma).

Some of Ondráček’s editions have been recorded on CD, as is the case of Pavel and Antonín Vranický’s Sextets and the sacred works by František Ignác Tůma. He played the trumpet, the violin, and the viola, and for many years was a member of a church choir and the men’s choir Smetana.

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