Karel Boleslav Jirák

Karel Boleslav Jirák is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation music theorist. Classed in the genre classical music. Recorded as composer, pedagogue, conductor, teacher and music theorist.

From 1920-30, he was a composition teacher at the Prague Conservatory, and principal conductor of the Czechoslovak Radio Orchestra until 1945. In 1947, he emigrated to the United States, where from 1948 to 1967 a professor at Roosevelt University, Chicago, and, in 1967, a composition teacher at the Conservatory college in Chicago. He remained in this position until 1971. Jirák's opera was Apolonius z Tyany (Apollonius of Tyana, 1912–1913), which was initially ignored by Prague's National Theatre and later accepted under the title Žena a Bůh (The Woman and the God, 1936). He wrote six symphonies and several symphonic variations. In 1952, he wrote a Symphonic Scherzo for volume. He also wrote many suites and overtures, numerous pieces of chamber music, many preludes and a Suite for organ, a Requiem, choruses, and song cycles. He was a popular and renowned musical theorist.

Karel Boleslav Jirák studied at Charles University. The recorded working language is Czech. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera, symphony and classical music. Places of work recorded in the authority are Brno and Ostrava. Employment is recorded with Prague Conservatory and Roosevelt University.

• Biography, Musicbase.cz; accessed February 10, 2018. • Piano Concerto (1946)