Jitka Snížková was a Czech composer, music educator and musicologist. As the President of the Mozart Society, which owned Bertramka

Bertramka

Bertramka is a villa in Prague where Mozart was a frequent guest. Bertramka is now a museum dedicated to the memory of Mozart and to the former owners and Mozart’s hosts: Mr and Mrs Dušek.Bertramka is situated about a mile from the city centre...

, she was pressured into donating the property to the National Committee of Prague in 1986. Bertramka was the villa where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

 lived while he was in Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

 and where he completed his opera Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni

Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...

. After she died suddenly, the Mozart Society contested the donation.

Works

Selected works include:

• Interludia for Flute, Bb Clarinet, and Harp/Piano
• Sinfonia ... Revidoval ... Hanus Krupka

She also edited and published collections, including:

• Book of Minuets from Kutná Hora, Kutnohorská knížka menuetů, ed. by Jitka Snížková