Alois Piňos

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Alois Piňos-Simandl (born October 2, 1925 in Vyškov , † September 19, 2008 in Brno ) was a Czech composer and music teacher.

After attending high school, Piňos studied forestry and also took private composition lessons. He continued his musical education at the Brno Conservatory and from 1949 to 1953 at the Janáček Music Academy . Here he taught music theory from 1953 and composition from 1965. His numerous students included u. a. Miloš Štědroň , Petr Kofroň , Jiří Kollert , Peter Graham , Daniel Forró , Martin Dohnal , Ivo Medek and Dan Dlouhý .

He perfected his own musical training a. a. at the Darmstadt summer courses with Pierre Boulez , Bruno Maderna and Karlheinz Stockhausen , at courses for electronic music in Munich with Mauricio Kagel and Josef Anton Riedl and at courses for modern French music in Prague with Pierre Schaeffer , François Bayle and Guy Reibel .

Since the 1960s, Piňos has been a staunch representative of the musical avant-garde in Czechoslovakia, which brought him political persecution from 1969 to 1989 and a ban on performing his works. His compositions include practically all genres from vocal and chamber music to orchestral and stage works to electronic music and multimedia works. He presented the theoretical foundations of his composition in the work Tónové skupiny (Toncluster) published in 1971. His compositions are characterized by a clear, unsentimental tonal language and unmistakable (black) humorous elements.

Piňos also put a lot of energy into organizing the Czech musical life. He is a co-founder of "Tvůrčí skupiny A", the New Music Orchestra "Studio autorů", the Camerata Brno Association , the Artists' Association Q and the Electroacoustic Music Society and is a member of Atelier '90 Praha , the Prague Art Talks and the Czech Section of the ISCM . From 1984 to 1994 he was a permanent lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer Courses, and during this time he also put together numerous music programs for WDR Cologne .

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SURNAME Piňos, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piňos-Simandl, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vyškov
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 2008
Place of death Brno