Hynek Vojáček

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Hynek Vojáček

Hynek (Ignac) Vojáček born when Hynek Ignác František Vojáček ( Russian: Игнатий Кашпарович Воячек ) (* 4. December 1825 in Zlín , Moravia , Empire Austria , † January 27 . Jul / 9. February  1916 greg. In Petrograd , Tsarism Russia ) was a Czech composer, educator, and publicist.

Life

The composer's father, Kašpar Vojáček, was a village cantor and collected folk songs from his homeland, Moravian Wallachia . Vojáček received his first musical education from his father, then the organist Daněk from Vsetín became his teacher. From 1838 he was a fundatist (scholarship student) in the grammar school of the Augustinian monastery in Brno , where he studied music with Gottfried Rieger and philosophy with František Matouš Klácel . The young Vojáček composed songs and church works as early as his high school days.

In 1845 Hynek Vojáček began studying philosophy in Vienna , where he became a member of a Slavic choir. After just one year he gave up his studies and became tutor of Count Bethlen's family in Transylvania . In 1848 he returned to Vsetín and organized orchestral concerts in Swietlau Castle . In the same year he was choir master of the Brno Men's Choir , with which he performed works by Bohemian composers.

During another stay in Vienna, he met the Russian composer Alexej Fjodorowitsch Lwow , the author of the tsar's anthem, and went to Russia with him. First he became a music teacher for the family of Lvov's sister (wife of General Samsonov ) in Brest-Litovsk . In 1853 he became military bandmaster of the imperial Preobrazhensk body guard regiment in Saint Petersburg . In 1856 he became a bassoonist in the orchestra of the Imperial St. Petersburg Opera , where he worked for almost 50 years. In addition, he was a music teacher in the imperial drama school and from 1862 professor of theoretical disciplines at the St. Petersburg Conservatory .

He couldn't make a name for himself as a composer in Russia. However, he traveled to his Moravian homeland every year to collect more Wallachian folk songs like his father did. He maintained friendly contact with Leoš Janáček , even if he showed little understanding for his work. From Petersburg he corresponded with the Prague music magazine Dalibor . One of his most successful works was the solemn overture ( Slavnostní ouvertura ), with which the Czech Interim Theater in Prague was opened on November 18, 1862 .

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Operas

  • Zajatá , in the Russian original Plennitsa (1867)
  • Tamara the Georgian Empress

Cantatas

  • Maruška. Obrázek z Pobečví (1907)
  • Na horách (1909)

Songs

Choral works

  • Stesk (1899)
  • 6 čtyřhlasých písní for women's or children's choir
  • Národy nehasnou (1846)
  • Hlas z Blaníka (František Matouš Klácel, 1849)
  • Teď mocný vane světem duch (Aleš Balcárek)
  • Desatero zpěvů ( Adolf Heyduk , 1885)
  • Hostýnské písně
  • Udivení ( Josef Václav Sládek , 1899)
  • Čechoslovanské prostonárodní písně

He also composed church music, overtures for orchestra, various works for piano and etudes for bassoon.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hynek Vojáček  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ birth and Taufmatriken Brno
personal data
SURNAME Vojáček, Hynek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vojáček, Hynek Ignaz (full name); Vojáček, Hynek Ignác František (maiden name); Воячек, Игнатий Кашпарович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech composer, music teacher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Zlín , Moravia , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1916
Place of death Petrograd , Tsarist Russia