Bugatti Step 騎熊士版

鋼琴狐步舞《布加迪舞步》的作曲家雅羅斯拉夫-耶澤克（Jaroslav Jezek，1906 年生於布拉格，1942 年卒於紐約）是捷克流行爵士樂的先驅，也是著名喜劇演員伊日-沃斯科韋茨（Jiri Voskovec）和揚-韋裡奇（Jan Werich）大部分戲劇音樂的幕後作者。但與此同時，我們不應忘記，尤其是《鋼琴協奏曲》（1927 年）和《小組曲》（1928 年）使耶澤克躋身于國際現代主義領軍人物（保羅-欣德密斯、埃爾溫-舒爾霍夫等人）之列，他們在 20 世紀二三十年代努力將爵士樂元素融入嚴肅音樂之中"

作曲家: Ježek, Jaroslav
樂器: piano 鋼琴
出版社: Bärenreiter 騎熊士(小熊版)
原文簡介:
The composer of the piano foxtrot Bugatti step, Jaroslav Jezek (born 1906 in Prague, died 1942 in New York), is primarily known as a pioneer in Czech popular jazz music, as well as the artist behind the music for the majority of plays by renowned comedians Jiri Voskovec and Jan Werich, written for the avantgarde Osvobozene divadlo (Prague Liberated Theatre) during its heyday, between the years 1925 and 1938. At the same time, however, one should not forget that especially the Piano Concerto (1927) and the Little Suite (1928) place Jezek among the leading figures of international Modernism (Paul Hindemith, Erwin Schulhoff and others) who, in the 1920s and 1930s, strove to incorporate jazz elements into serious music.

Bugatti step, written in 1931 as the overture to the play Don Juan & Comp., thanks to its true dance character and immense virtuosity, hovers on the borderline between these two musical genres. Its title is also of interest – Jezek, a great sports enthusiast, chose the title in honour of the winning French racer Louis Chiros who drove a Bugatti at the Masaryk racing circuit in Brno, and his fascination with technology is reflected in the pulsating rhythms reminiscent of a four-stroke engine, present throughout the composition constructed on fourth intervals.