Karel Weis
Illustration — Karel Weis Karel Weis (13 February 1862, in Prague – 4 April 1944, in Prague) was a Czech composer and musicologist. Weis studied at the Prague Conservatory; amongst his teachers was Antonín Bennewitz. He also took private lessons with Zdeněk Fibich.
Karel Weis
Jan Vilímek · http: archiv.ucl.cas.cz/index.php?path=HumL/31.1889/41/371.png- digitized by Czech Academy of Sciences · Public domain
- Born
- 1862 · Prague.
- Died
- 1944 · Prague.
- Nationality
- Austria–Hungary
- Occupation
- composer · organist · conductor · folklorist · musicologist · ethnographer · violinist · bandleader
- Fields
- music · folkloristics · traditional folk song · composed musical work
- Languages
- Czech
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Illustration — Karel Weis Karel Weis (13 February 1862, in Prague – 4 April 1944, in Prague) was a Czech composer and musicologist. Weis studied at the Prague Conservatory; amongst his teachers was Antonín Bennewitz. He also took private lessons with Zdeněk Fibich.
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He was for some years a violinist at the Prague National Theatre, and later conducted opera in Prague and Brno. He also acted as organist. Between 1928 and 1941, he published a fifteen volume collection of folk songs. Among his many compositions are eleven operas, (three in Czech, and eight, of which six are operettas, in German), five of which premiered at the Prague State Opera. Czech nationalists however criticised him for setting German texts.
The recorded working language is Czech. The field of work recorded is music, folkloristics and traditional folk song. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera, classical music and operetta. Places of work recorded in the authority are Brno and Kroměříž.
• Viola (1892) • Der polnische Jude (1901) (on the same plot as Camille Erlanger's 1900 opera Le Juif polonais). • Die Dorfmusikanten (1905) • Der Revisor (1907) • Utok na mlýn (1912) • Blizenci (1917) • Lesetinský kovár (1920) • Bojárska nevesta (1943)
Album representantů všech oborů veřejného života československého - 1927 - Karel Weis
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- 1.Encyclopédia of Music. Wydawnictwo Muzyczne. 2012. 978-83-224-0935-0.
- 2.Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Schirmer Books. 2001. 0-02-865571-0.
- 3.Weis, Karel. Oxford University Press. 20 janvier 2001.
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