People from Austrian Silesia - Gregor Mendel, Artur Schnabel, Leo Jana Ek, Viktor Ullmann, Joy Adamson, Jozef Ko Do, Josef Strzygowski (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Gregor Mendel, Artur Schnabel, Leo Jana ek, Viktor Ullmann, Joy Adamson, Jozef Ko do, Josef Strzygowski, Max Rostal, Maria Stona, Walter Schimana, Hugo von Seeliger, Emil Zegad owicz, Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Aleksander Zawadzki, Ondra ysohorsky, Louis Kentner, Heinrich Conried, Robert Hohlbaum, Sigmund Zeisler, Johann Nepomuk Rust, William Markowitz, Hermann Heller, Maurice Bloomfield, Theodor Kotschy, Georg Gebel, Rudolf Prich, Johann Schroth, Andrzej H awiczka, Hans Zenker, Victor Franke, Felix Woyrsch, Hildegard Ranczak, Andreas Dombrowski, Jan Kotr, Franti ek Chvostek, Moritz Jursitzky, Eduard Schon, Jakub Skrobanek, Emil Sax, Rudolf Ramek, Josef Cichy, W odzimierz D browski, Ildefons Pauler. Excerpt: Leo Jana ek (Czech pronunciation: , baptised Leo Eugen Jana ek, July 3, 1854 - August 12, 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by contemporaries such as Antonin Dvo ak. His later, mature works incorporate his earlier studies of national folk music in a modern, highly original synthesis, first evident in the opera Jen fa, which was premiered in 1904 in Brno. The success of Jen fa (often called the "Moravian national opera") at Prague in 1916 gave Jana ek access to the world's great opera stages. Jana ek's later works are his most celebrated. They include the symphonic poem Sinfonietta, the oratorial Glagolitic Mass, the rhapsody Taras Bulba, string quartets, other chamber works and operas. He is considered to rank with Antonin Dvo ak and Bed ich Smetana, as one of the most important Czech composers. Leo Jana ek with his wife in 1881Leo Jana ek, son of schoolmast...