Antonín Jiránek
Antonín Jiránek ( Anton Giranek , * around 1712 in Mladá Boleslav , † January 16, 1761 in Dresden ) was a Bohemian violinist and composer.
Life
Antonín Jiránek was trained in Prague. He was the first violinist in the royal chapel in Warsaw and later in the Polish court orchestra in Dresden. He composed symphonies, concerts, trio sonatas and vocal music in the style of sensitivity . At the beginning of the 20th century, musicologists were able to assign some of the works ascribed to him to his namesake František Jiránek .
Robert Eitner states that his daughter Franziska was the famous singer "Madame Koch" . Another daughter was the castle actress Karoline Krüger .
literature
- Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea world of music . Volume 3: Hauff - Menalt . Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07833-1 , p. 210.
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Antonín Jiránek in the International Music Score Library Project
- Literature and other media by and about Antonín Jiránek in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Works by and about Antonín Jiránek in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Eitner: Giranek, Anton , in: Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars . 4th volume. Leipzig 1901, p. 266 ( digitized version )
- ^ Joseph Kürschner: Koch, Franziska Romana . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 375 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jiránek, Antonín |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Giranek, Anton; Gieranek, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1712 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mladá Boleslav |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1761 |
| Place of death | Dresden |