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Milan Slavicky
… Milan Slavický was a Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He came from a … after 1990. His compositions have often been performed on Czech and foreign stages and have received significant … , composed for the Berliner Festwochen festival, won the Czech Music Critics' Award for Best Composition in 1992. …
Viktor Ullmann
… Viktor Ullmann was born in Teschen (now Český Těšín), Czech Republic on January 1, 1898. Ullmann’s father was an … studying quarter-tone composition under the guidance of Czech composer Alois Hába. In 1934, Ullmann was awarded the …
Gustav Mahler
… most of his childhood in Iglau, Moravia (in present-day Czech Republic) surrounded by a flourishing German-speaking …
Gideon Klein
… In the spring of 1939, shortly after the integration of Czech lands into the Third Reich, Nazi officials closed all institutions of higher education in the occupied Czech territories. Klein’s university studies ended … Schachter for whose chorus Klein composed folk songs in Czech, Slovak, Hebrew, and Russian. Since procuring scores …
Hans Krása
… German opera house in Prague . Krása’s father, a prosperous Czech lawyer, used his wealth and social connections to … on Dostoyevsky’s Uncle’s Dream , for which he received a Czechoslovak State Prize. The opera premiered on Prague … conductor George Szell. Rather than associating with fellow Czech musicians, Krása often preferred to socialize and work …
Rafael Schächter
… Gideon Klein was particularly opportune; he arranged Czech, Slovak, Hebrew and even Russian folk songs for … and conducted Verdi's Requiem and the cantata, The Czech Song by Bedřich Smetana. In the summer of 1944, …
Egon Ledeč
… after graduating from the conservatory, Ledeč joined the Czech Philharmonic. Upon completing his army service, Ledeč … with several Slovak orchestras until rejoining the Czech Philharmonic as an associate concertmaster in 1926. He held this post until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. Ledeč was an active soloist and …
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… During the years 1937-38, Schul studied under famous Czech composer Alois Hába, who became a close mentor and …
Pavel Haas
… Pavel Haas was born in Brno (today in Czech Republic). He studied at the Brno Conservatory with …
Karel Reiner
… after accompanist until the Nazi occupying forces in the Czech territories issued a ban on public performances by …