Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (November 10, 1883, Ivanovice na Hané

Ivanovice na Hané

Ivanovice na Hané is a town in the Czech Republic.- People :* Gustav Karpeles , Jewish writer* Andreas Nemetz , Moravian composer * Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann , organist, composer- External links :*...

, Moravia

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 - November 5, 1951, Prague

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) was a Czech

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 organist, composer, and teacher.

He spent his early years in study under Josef Klička

Josef Klicka

Josef Klička was a Czech organist, violinist, composer, conductor and pedagogue. He is author of several large organ compositions in the style of late romanticism....

 and Vítězslav Novák

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Vítězslav Novák was one of the most well-respected Czech composers and pedagogues, almost singlehandedly founding a mid-century Czech school of composition...

, and taught such notable pupils as Jiří Ropek, Bedřich Janáček, and Josef Černocký. Wiedermann gained great reputation as an organist, he performed in England

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 (1924), New York

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 (1924), Germany

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 (1925), Sweden

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 (1926), and Belgium

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 (1935).

Selected works

His compositional output comprises 350 opus numbers of varied instrumentation and vocal formations.

Organ

• Tři skladby pro varhany (Three Pieces for Organ) (1912)
• Elegie (Elegy) (1920)
• Tři chorálové předehry (Three Choral Preludes) (1919–1927)
• Míťova ukolébavka (Míťa's Lullaby) (1935)
• Ukolébavka (Lullaby) (1939)
• Pod čs. vlajkou a rudým praporem (Under the Czechoslovak Flag and Under the Red Flag) (1946)
• Pastorale dorico (1942)
• Pastorale lydico (1945)

Violin

• Suita ve starém slohu (Suite in Old Style) - for violin and piano (1920) (orchestrated in 1939)

Songs

• Tři písně v lidovém tónu moravském (Three Songs on Themes of Moravian Folk Songs) (1913)
• Hanácke kolede (Carols of Hanácko) (1936)
• Hanácky pěsničke (Songs of Hanácko) (1948)

Choirs

• Dva mužské sbory (Two Male Choirs) (1935)
• Na křídech vánku (On the Wings of Breeze) (1945)

Cantatas

• Havéřská kantáta (Miner's Cantata) (1939)
• Kantáta ve starém slohu (Cantata in Old Style) (1941)

Sacred Music

• Miserere ad septem voces inaequales (1907–1911)
• Missa solemnis, Missa in quadragesima (1948)