Juraj Filas (1955-2021)
Juraj Filas’ compositions are inspired by his faith in music’s power to heal wounds, open hearts, and bring peoples together. His music is encompassed by one philosophy: Harmony is the needed balance for the universe.
Juraj Filas is the author of more than 120 opuses across the genres of concerts, symphonies, cantatas, operas, and chamber music. His requiem, Oratio Spei (Prayer of Hope), has been performed at the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyala and at Carnegie Hall by the Oratorio Society of New York with a cast including Susanna Phillips, Matthew Plenk, and under the hand of conductor Kent Tritle.
Juraj Filas was born in 1955 in Kosice, Slovakia and died in 2021 in Prague. He studied at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts, with Jan Zdenek Bartos and Jiri Pauer who brought him to his lifelong passion for composition. Filas soon found national acclaim, three times winning the title of young composer laureate in Ostrava (Generace), and then found international renown when his TV opera Memento Mori won the Jacobs-Suchard Prize at the International Music Competition in 1989 in Slazburg.
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Juraj Filas
A Very Short Love Story
for trumpet and piano
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 7'30
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2002
Juraj Filas
Adagio
for trumpet and piano
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 6'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2004
Juraj Filas
Appassionata
for trumpet and organ
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 26'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2004
Juraj Filas
Concertino-doppio per virtuosi
“Salamandra immortale” for violin, cello and string orchestra
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 15'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1996
Juraj Filas
Concerto
for horn and symphonic wind band
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 15'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2004
Juraj Filas
Concerto
for piccolo trumpet and orchestra
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 17'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2002
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Juraj Filas
Concerto
for euphonium and orchestra
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 17'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2002
Juraj Filas
Concerto
“Don Chisciotte o un Autoritratto” for trombone and orchestra
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 25'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2000
Juraj Filas
Der feurige Engel
for wind band
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 10'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1993
Juraj Filas
Der letzte slawische Tanz
“Ein ferner Widerhall vom Gulag” for wind band
- Level: intermediate
- Duration: 10'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1995
Juraj Filas
Fresko
zum 150. Jubiläum der Geburt von A. Dvorak for organ
- Level: intermediate
- Duration: 10'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1989
Juraj Filas
Klavierquintett
for oboe, english horn, tenor oboe (or 2nd english horn), basson and piano
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 26'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2003
Juraj Filas
L’Ultimo Cavaliere
for symphony orchestra
- Duration: 17'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1995
Juraj Filas
Les Adieux
for violin and piano
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 8'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2003
Juraj Filas
Liebe Gute Freiheit
for oboe, english horn, tenor oboe and bassoon
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 28'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2000
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Juraj Filas
Little Slovak Rhapsody
for clarinet and piano
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 9'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1995
Juraj Filas
No Comment
for brass quintet
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 14'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1996
Juraj Filas
Omaggio a Verdi (1813-2003)
for woodwind quintet
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 26'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2003
Juraj Filas
Ora Pro Nobis
Fantaisie concertante for english horn and orchestra
- Level: intermediate
- Duration: 14'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2000
Juraj Filas
Portrait of the Time
for oboe, horn and piano
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 21'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1998
Juraj Filas
Regina coeli
for voice(s) (children), flute and organ
- Level: easy / intermediate
- Duration: 5'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2004
Juraj Filas
Requiem
Oratio spei for soprano, tenor and baritone soli, choir and orchestra
- Duration: 80'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2002
Juraj Filas
Rhapsodie in Dark Blue
“To the Memory of George Gershwin” for string quartet
- Level: intermediate
- Duration: 15'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1996
Juraj Filas
Romance Concertante
for bass trombone and orchestra
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 10'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1998
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Juraj Filas
Romance in C Major
for piccolo trumpet and organ
- Level: advanced
- Duration: 10'30
- Genre: romantic
- Composed: 2005
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Juraj Filas
Satans Opfern
for trombone quartet
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 10'30
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1999
Juraj Filas
Sonata
for trumpet and piano
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 10'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1970
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Juraj Filas
Sonata
for tuba and piano
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 15'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1991
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Juraj Filas
Sonata
“at the end of the century” for trombone and piano
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 15'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1997
Juraj Filas
Sonata
“In memoriam” for viola and piano
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 15'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1988
Juraj Filas
Symphonie nach Mass
for symphony orchestra
- Duration: 35'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1994
Juraj Filas
The Bloody Te Deum
for soprano voice, mixed choir, orchestra, synthesizer and tape
- Duration: 25'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1991
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Juraj Filas
Trio
for oboe, english horn, bassoon
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 28'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 1993
Juraj Filas
Trio d’Amour
“Glimmer of a Fallen Empire” for piano, violin and cello
- Level: intermediate / advanced
- Duration: 33'
- Genre: romantic
- Composed: 1999
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Juraj Filas
Veni, Sancte Spiritus
for mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
- Level: intermediate
- Duration: 5'
- Genre: contemporary
- Composed: 2005