Jindrich Feld's Introduzione, Toccata e Fuga per Flauto Solo, with three recitals of selected works of J. S. Bach, Mozart, Messiaen, Berio, Martinu, Persichetti, and others

The Czechoslovakian composer Jindrich Feld (b. 1925) composed Introduzione, Toccata e Fuga per Flauto Solo, for the Italian flutist Roberto Frabbriciani. The work was completed on 28 June 1991 and premiered 10 July 1991 in Cortona, Italy, during an Italian flute festival that featured Feld's flute compositions. Through the generosity of the composer, I obtained a copy of the manuscript from Dr. C. Warren Moseley (my uncle) who visited and interviewed Feld in Prague on 28 June 1991; a transcript of the interview is included in an Appendix of the dissertation. My performance of this work on a lecture recital 25 November 1991, is the United States premiere of the composition.;Feld's Introduzione is from his third style period. This work may be labeled as a synthesis of the experiments and experiences that have enabled him to create his own mature style of expression. Feld's previous unaccompanied flute works, Quatre Pieces pour Flute seule (1954) and Contrasts for solo flute (1973), precede Introduzione, historically and stylistically and offer insight into Feld's compositional style.;Through Feld's employment of baroque titles, which have their origins in the Italian keyboard works of the eighteenth century, the movements of Feld's work may be associated with a particular style. While the composition's style invokes the spirit of the baroque period, its tonal language is a product of twentieth-century serial techniques, Feld's piece may therefore be viewed as neoclassic.