Bohumír Štědroň (musicologist)

Bohumír Štědroň (born October 30, 1905 in Vyškov , † November 24, 1982 in Brno ) was a Czech musicologist and pianist.

Bohumír Štědroň belongs to a family of musicians. His father František Štědroň was a conductor and music teacher, his son, the economist Bohumír Štědroň was also known as a pianist, his daughter Stanislava Střelcová as a musicologist. His nephew Miloš Štědroň , son of his brother Miloš, is a composer and music teacher; a son of his brother Jan , Jiří Štědroň , is a singer, his youngest son Jan Štědroň is a flutist and music teacher; his grandson is the conductor Jaroslav Kyzlink .

Štědroň graduated from high school in 1924 and then attended the teacher training institute in Brno. From 1925 to 1927 he taught singing at the grammar school in Vyškov, after which he studied history and geography at the University of Brno . He taught these subjects in Brno and at the same time studied musicology with Vladimir Helfert .

From 1939 to 1945 and 1950–52, Štědroň taught at the Brno Conservatory, and from 1945 also at the University of Brno (then "Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně"), where he was full professor from 1963. From 1956 to 1959 he also worked as an external lecturer in music history at the music faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague . He published mainly on music education topics and made a name for himself as a lexicographer.

As a performing musician, Štědroň completed training in music theory with Josef Blatný (1925-28) and studied piano with Vilém Kurz (1926-29) and passed a state examination in Prague in 1926 in the subjects of piano and choral singing. He worked as a choir director and, with his brothers Jan and Miloš, as a chamber musician and played harpsichord concerts by Georg Anton Benda on the radio . In Vienna he recorded harpsichord pieces by Czech composers in 1956, and with the Moravian Wind Quintet he recorded Leoš Janáček's Moravian folk tunes on Radio Brno .

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• Český hudební slovník osob a institucí - Štědroň, Bohumír 1)