Miloslav Kabeláč

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Miloslav Kabeláč (born August 1, 1908 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † September 17, 1979 in Prague) was a Czech composer and conductor .

Life

Kabeláč studied since 1928 at the Prague Conservatory with Karel Jirák (composition) and Pavel Dědeček (orchestral conducting). Alois Hába and Erwin Schulhoff were also among his teachers . From 1931 to 1934 he studied piano in the master class of Vilém Kurz . From 1932 to 1954 he worked as a music director and conductor for the Prague Radio, interrupted between 1941 and 1945. In 1939 he composed the cantata "Neustupujte!" as a protest against the German occupation. In 1948 his 2nd symphony was awarded the Czech National Prize. From 1958 he held a professorship for composition at the Prague Conservatory, but had to give up this position after a few years. Among his students were, for example, Zdeněk Lukáš , Jan Málek , Jaroslav Krček , Jan Slimáček and Ivana Loudová .

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Kabeláč wrote among other orchestral works a. a. 8 symphonies (between 1941 and 1970, with very different scoring), a wind sextet, piano works and vocal compositions. For example, 8 inventions and 8 ricercari were created for the drums he particularly valued . Stylistically, he was inspired by a broad musical spectrum, ranging from borrowings from Gregorian chant to the inclusion of non-European musical cultures (especially Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Arabic). From the late 1950s and 1960s, Kabeláč, who also worked as a conductor for contemporary music, increasingly sought contacts with current musical trends in Western Europe. While his orchestral work "Improvisation über Hamlet " was awarded the Czechoslovak Criticism Prize in 1964 and the State Prize in 1965, his work was largely ignored in his own country after the end of the Prague Spring .

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