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Czech music educator, opera singer and director
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- bass-baritone
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- opera singer, pedagogue, director, translator
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2013-08-09 19:12:26
Jan Dismas Zelenka rediscovered
Jan Dismas Zelenka (16 October 1679, Louňovice pod Blaníkem, Czechia – 23 December 1745, Dresden, Germany), was the most important Czech Baroque music composer, whose music was notably daring with outstanding harmonic invention and mastery of counterpoint. Zelenka received musical training at the Jesuit college Clementinum in Prague. He played the violone, analogous to the double bass in the violin family of stringed instrumentsand started compose music in the first decade of 18th century. His emigration from Bohemia to Dresden was most likely sudden, the reasons for it are not known and became the subject of some speculations. In some monographs, various personal reasons are alleged to be behind his escape, but the truth remains draped in mystery. Except for a visit in 1723 to Prague to take part in the performance of his “Melodrama of Saint Wenceslas”, he remained a resident of Dresden until his death. In Dresden, Zelenka […]
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