Pavel Štěpán

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Prof. Pavel Štěpán (28 May 1925 - 30 September 1998), has linked up in his career with his family's musical tradition: He is the grandson of Professor Vilém Kurz, a prominent Czech piano educator, and the son of piano virtuoso and teacher Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová and musicologist/pianist Václav Štěpán. His family maintained close personal contacts with the composer Josef Suk, and actually received instructions for the interpretation of his piano output from the composer himself. Pavel Štěpán made his first public appearance at the age of sixteen, two years later to make his debut performance with the Czech Philharmonic (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor K 491 ), playing under the baton of Rafael Kubelík. In 1971 and 1982 he received the Wiener Flötenuhr award for the year's best Mozartian recording, and in 1978 his reading of the complete piano works of Josef Suk was presented Supraphon Golden Disc as recording of the year.

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• CD Pavel Štěpán
• Josef Suk:Piano work
• Mozart-Die grossen Klavierkonzerte - BOX 5 LP
• W.A.Mozart Piano concerto No.23 A major K488
• Josef Suk:Piano trio op.2, Piano quartet op.1
• Mozarteum
• Dr.Zdeňka Böhmová-Zahradníčková: Vilém Kurz, SNKL n.p. Praha 1954
• Hudební rozhledy 6/1973
• Encyklopedie Seznam
• Souhrnné klavírní dílo Josefa Suka
• Šedesát let AMU a její hudební fakulty
• Film music