Ivan Prač

• Name — Johann Gottfried Pratsch • Native Name — Jan Bohumír Práč • Alias — Иоганн (Иван) Готфрид • Born — 1750 • Died — 1798–1818 • Occupation — * Composer • folklorist • music educator • pianist • conductor

Pratsch was born in Silesia in 1750, and was Czech by ethnicity. He worked as a piano teacher in Saint Petersburg in the 1770s. He taught music at the Smolnїy Institute from 1780 to 1785. In 1784, the St. Petersburg Theatre School appointed him harpsichord teacher. He collaborated with Nikolay Lvov on a collection of Russian folk songs, which was published in 1790. The collection, called "Sobraniye Narodnїkh Russikikh Pesen s Ikh Golosami" ("Collection of Russian Folk Songs with Their Tunes"), influenced composers in Russia and throughout the world, including composers such as Alexander Glazunov, Alexander Gretchaninov, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky, Gioachino Rossini, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria von Weber, Fernando Sor, and Ludwig van Beethoven.

• Rondo in F major • Sonata for piano in C major, Opus no. 1 • Fandango for piano, Opus no. 2 (1795) • Cello sonata in A minor, Opus 6

Ivan Prač is recorded with the occupation music arranger. Recorded with the occupation folklorist. Recorded with the occupation conductor. Recorded with the occupation composer. Recorded with the occupation pianist. Recorded as composer, folklorist, music educator, pianist and conductor. Recorded at birth as Jan Bohumír Práč. The authorities additionally record the headings Ivan Prac and Johann Gottfried Pratsch.