Miloslav Ištvan

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Miloslav Ištvan (born September 2, 1928 in Olomouc ; † January 26, 1990 in Brno ) was a Czech composer and music teacher.

Ištvan took private composition lessons from Vilém Petrželka and piano lessons from František Maxián . From 1948 to 1952 he studied composition with Jaroslav Kvapil at the Leoš Janáček Academy . After postgraduate studies until 1956, he taught here until his death in 1990.

In the 1960s he belonged to Alois Piňos , Jan Novák and Zdeněk Pololáník of an artist group initiated by Josef Berg and later to a group around Piňos with Rudolf Růžička , Arnošt Parsch and Miloš Štědroň . The supporters of new music stood alongside composers such as Miloslav Kabeláč , Jan Rychlík , Zbyňek Vostřák , Mark Kopelent , Jan Klusák and Luboš Fišer in opposition to the official state cultural policy. They organized concerts and lectures, held festivals of experimental music in 1969 and 1970, founded an electro-acoustic studio and an orchestra for experimental music on the radio. All of these activities were banned after the crackdown on the Prague Spring in the early 1970s.

In 1980 Ištvan founded the Camerata Brno for modern music with friends and students from the Janáček Academy . In addition to electroacoustic works, Ištvan u. a. the orchestral pieces Balada o jihu , Zaklínání času and Hry , the oratorio Kráska a zvíře , Ommagio a JS Bach and the chamber cantata Já, Jákob based on texts by Petr Ulrych . With Miloš Štědroň he completed Josef Berg's opera Doctor Faust . His son Radomír Ištvan was also known as a composer.

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SURNAME Ištvan, Miloslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Olomouc
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1990
Place of death Brno