František Zdeněk Skuherský

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František Zdeněk Skuherský

František Zdeněk Skuherský (baptized as František Xaver Alois , born July 31, 1830 in Opočno , † August 19, 1892 in České Budějovice ) was a Czech composer and music teacher.

Life

Skuherský was the son of a doctor who was in the service of Prince Colloredo-Mansfeld in Opočno , where he founded a general hospital in 1833. He studied philosophy and four semesters of medicine at Charles University in Prague. In addition, he studied at the organ school in Prague with Karl Franz Pitsch and Johann Friedrich Kittl from 1847 and published his first compositions under the pseudonym Opocenský .

From 1851 he was tutor to Count Hardegg in Seefeld. From 1854 to 1866 he was Kapellmeister in Innsbruck and directed the Liedertafel music association . Here he performed great works such as Beethoven's Eroica , Schubert's Great Symphony in C major , Haydn's The Seasons and Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus .

After the early death of his wife in 1868, Skuherský returned to Prague. He worked here as organist and director of the organ school. Musicians such as Josef Bohuslav Foerster , Leoš Janáček , Ferdinand Vach , Karel Hoffmeister , Bohuslav Jeremiáš , Jindřich Kàan z Albestů , Josef Klička , Karel Stecker , Josef Cyrill Sychra and Jan Evangelista Zelinka were among his students. In 1873 he founded a fund to support destitute students at the organ school. From 1879 to 1887 he taught music theory at Charles University. After the union of the organ school with the Prague Conservatory in 1890, Skuherský retired.

In addition to piano and organ works, Skuherský also composed a symphony, a symphonic poem, masses, motets and operas. He also wrote the font O formách hudebních , which was also published in German under the title The musical forms (1879).

Works

  • Tri písne z Rukopisu královédvorského , songs, 1852
  • Samo , Opera, 1852–54
  • The love ring , opera, libretto by Hermann von Schmid , 1861
  • The Apostate Opera, libretto by Josef Václav Frič , Czech version: Vladimír bohu zvolenec (Vladimír, the chosen one of the gods), 1863
  • Smrt krále Václava IV. (The Death of King Wenceslaus IV.), Opera, libretto Josef Wenzig , 1868 (unfinished)
  • Jaroslav ze Šternberka , libretto by Eliška Krásnohorská based on the Königinhofer manuscript , opera 1868, (unfinished)
  • The recruit , opera, libretto by Emanuel Züngel after a hundred years ago by Ernst Raupach , before 1866, Czech version: Rektor a generál (Rector and General), 1873
  • Symfony , 1877
  • Tri fugy pro orchestr (Three fugues for orchestra), 1883–4
  • Pensée du soir for military band
  • Three songs based on Anton Schüller
  • Tri písne , Three songs after Heinrich Heine op. 6 after Heinrich Heine
  • Písne ( edited by Marco Berra , Prague)
  • Slavnostní kantáta za prícinou snatku korunního prince Rudolfa (Festive cantata for the wedding of Crown Prince Rudolf) for choir and harmonium
  • Frau Kitt , song based on Karl Egon Ebert
  • Love as a nightingale , song based on Emanuel Geibel
  • Priplulo jaro , song based on Eliška Krásnohorská
  • Ctvero mužských sboru , song after František Ladislav Čelakovský
  • Missa in honorem sancti Venceslai
  • Missa quarta

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SURNAME Skuherský, František Zdeněk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skuherský, František Xaver Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Opočno
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1892
Place of death České Budějovice