Bedřich Tylšar, a Czech horn player and pedagogue, was a long-time member of the Czech Philharmonic and an exponent of the Czech tradition of horn playing. He and his brother, Zdeněk (1945-2006) often performed together as a duo. Double horn concertos (and horn concertos in general) were prevalent during the Baroque and Classical periods, and the brothers revived and carried on this tradition.
The inspiration came to Bedřich at a music shop in Brussels, Belgium in 1962 when he heard a recording of two horns and decided to follow up by exploring archives. "I realized that these instruments [two horns] go together perfectly thanks to the abundance of overtones," Bedřich recalls. The brothers' first performance together was a Rosetti double concerto in E-flat in Olomouc, Czech Republic in 1964. The brothers made two-horn works by Czech composers such as Rosetti, Fiala, Reicha, and Pokorny widely known, as well as double concertos by Vivaldi, Telemann, and Haydn and horn concertos by Vivaldi, Haydn, and Leopold Mozart.
After graduating from the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, Bedřich Tylšar played in the Gottwald Philharmonic (now the Bohuslav Martinů Zlín Philharmonic), the Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK), the Munich Philharmonic (1967-1969), and from 1973 until 2001 the Czech Philharmonic (with his brother as principal horn). He also performed as a soloist at home and abroad and recorded about twenty albums. He has been a judge for the Prague Spring competition and taught at the Prague Conservatory.
Bedřich Tylšar was elected an IHS Honorary Member in 2024.
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