Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský
Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský (born July 17, 1870 in Vienna , † October 27, 1931 in Prague ) was a Czech conductor and composer.
Čelanský studied from 1892 to 1894 at the Prague Conservatory and worked as a theater conductor in Pilsen (1895), Zagreb (1898) and at the National Theater in Prague (1899–1900). Then he was a conductor in Lviv , Kiev and Paris , conducted the Czech National Philharmonic from 1918 to 1919 and finally worked in Brno . Alfred Einstein described him as one of the best Czech conductors .
Čelanský composed the symphonic trilogy Adam - Noe - Mojžíš , an opera ( Kamila ), a Te Deum and the symphonic poem Hymn to the Sun . Stylistically, it can be assigned to the late Romantic period .
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Čelanský, Ludvík Vítězslav , in: Český hudební slovník osob a institucí (Czech)
Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský (1901–1903) | Vilém Zemánek (1903-1918) | Václav Talich (1919–1931; 1933–1941) | Rafael Kubelík (1942–1948) | Karel Ančerl (1950–1968) | Václav Neumann (1968–1989) | Jiří Bělohlávek (1990–1992) | Gerd Albrecht (1993–1996) | Vladimir Ashkenazy (1996-2003) | Zdeněk Mácal (2003-2007) | Eliahu Inbal (2009-2011) | Jiří Bělohlávek (2012–2017) | Semyon Bychkov (since 2018)
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| SURNAME | Čelanský, Ludvík Vítězslav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1931 |
| Place of death | Prague |