Leos Janacek

Synopsis

Czech composer, organist, and teacher

• Born in Hukvaldy, Moravia on July 3, 1854
• 1872 graduated from the Czech Teachers' Institute
• 1872 became choirmaster over a monastery choir.
• 1874-5 studied with Skuhersky at the Prague Organ School
• 1879-80 studied at the Leipzig Conservatory
• 1880 studied at the Vienna Conservatory
• 1882 founded a organ school in Moravia
• 1924 retired from the Brno Organ School
• Died in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia on Aug 12, 1928

1875-1884 His style was nationalistic. He had the melodic and rhythmically richer irregularites of word-based Slovak, Hungarian, and Romanian folk music. His music is mostly diatonic, with chromatics reinforcing rather than detracting from the harmony. He wrote Prelude, Varyto, Chorale Fantasy, Oettingenach, and 2 Pieces for Organ

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