Josef Klička was a Czech organist

Organ (music)

The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

, violin

Violin

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ist, composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, conductor

Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

 and pedagogue. He is author of several large organ

Organ (music)

The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

 compositions in the style of late romanticism.

Klička grew up in influenced by music. He studied at conservatory and organ school in Prague

Prague

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. He worked as organist and conductor and later became professor at the Prague Conservatory

Prague Conservatory

Prague Conservatory, sometimes also Prague Conservatoire, in Czech Pražská konzervatoř, is a Czech secondary school in Prague dedicated to teaching the arts of music and theater acting.- Instruction :...

 (in 1892–1895 as proxy for Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Dvorák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...

, then in the USA).

His son, Václav Klička (1882–1953) was master harp

Harp

The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...

 player, as well as pedagogist at the conservatory.

Selected works

Opera

• Spanilá mylnářka (Die schöne Müllerin; The Lovely Maid of the Mill) (1888)

Chamber music

• Scherzo for 3 violins and piano, op.63

Organ

• Concert Fantasia in C minor, op.59
• Concert Fantasia in G minor
• Concert Fantasia in F minor, op.36
• Concert Fantasia on the St. Wenceslas Chorale (1890)
• Fantasia on Bedřich Smetana
  Bedrich Smetana
  Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...
  
  's Symphonic Poem "Vyšehrad", op.33
• Legend in D major, op.49
• Legend in D minor, op.54
• Legend in B minor, op.98
• 10 Preludes and Fugues

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External links

• Short biography (in Czech)