Ivan Pratsch
Iwan Pratsch ( Johann Gottfried Pratsch , Jan Bogumir Práč ) (* around 1750, † 1818 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Bohemian composer .
Pratsch lived in Saint Petersburg from around 1770, where he worked as a piano teacher at the Smolny Institute and the Court Theater Music School. With Nikolai Lwow he published the collection of Russian folk songs with their melodies in 1790 . Motives from it were u. a. used by Ludwig van Beethoven , Modest Mussorgski , Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow and Gioachino Rossini .
He also composed a fandango for violin and piano as well as numerous piano works, including a funeral march for the death of General Kutuzov .
Web links
- Works by and about Iwan Pratsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Richard Taruskin : Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays , Princeton University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-691-07065-2 , pp. 17 f
- Pratsch Network - biography
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SURNAME | Pratsch, Ivan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pratsch, Johann Gottfried; Práč, Jan Bogumir |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1750 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1818 |
Place of death | St. Petersburg |