Jan Hanuš (composer)

Jan Hanuš (born May 2, 1915 in Prague ; † July 30, 2004 there ) was a Czech composer .

Life

Hanuš studied conducting with Pavel Dědeček at the Prague Conservatory from 1932 to 1940 and took private composition lessons with Otakar Jeremiáš . He worked for various music publishers and published the collected works of Antonín Dvořák and Zdeněk Fibich and a critical edition of the works of Leoš Janáček . He served as the head of the Czech Society for Music Education and the Czech Section of the International Society for Music Education and was a member of the Prague Spring Festival Committee .

Hanuš composed, among other things, five operas and three ballets, seven symphonies and other symphonic works, a violin and a cello concerto, chamber music, organ works, eight masses, a St. John and St. Matthew Passion, cantatas, choirs and songs.

Filmography

• 1966: The Treasure Island ( four-part adventure ) - Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner
• 1969: The Leather Stocking Tales (Adventure Four-Parter ) - Directed by Jean Dréville and Pierre Gaspard-Huit
• 1979: The Swap - Director: Jordan Leondopoulos

literature

• Jan Hanuš: Labyrint svet. Svědectví z konce času . Odeon, Prague 1996, ISBN 80-207-0525-2 , (with catalog raisonné ).
• Karel Mlejnek: Jan Hanus - tvorba z let 1980–1985 . In: Hudební rozhledy 39, 1986, ISSN  0018-6996 , pp. 178-182.
• Ladislav Šip: Česká opera a její tvůrči . Supraphon, Prague 1983, pp. 269-278.

Works

• Biography and catalog raisonné at the Czech music information center

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Hanuš in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature and other media by and about Jan Hanuš (composer) in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Jan Hanuš in the Internet Movie Database (English)