Torso des Schumann-Denkmals

Ivan Rezác composed this piece to mark the 150th birthday of Robert Schumann in 1960. The title derives from the political events happening in the Czech Republic at that time: Just as memorials to former heroes were being torn down, the torso of the planned Schumann monument survived. Ivan Rezác clearly demonstrates Schumann‘s variation principle and analyses the specific formation and tectonic method using his own musical material, without, however, quoting specifically from any of Schumann‘s works.