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Rudolf Karel was a distinguished Czech

Czech people

Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...

composer.

Brief Biography

Rudolf Karel was son of a poor railway employee. He studied composition from 1899 to 1904 with 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...

and organ with 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....

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...

. In Prague

Prague

, he took part in the resistance and in the March 1943 was arrested.

Opera

1909 Islein's heart (Ilseino srdce)
1932 Gevatterin death op.30
1944 Opera: Three hair of the all-knowing Greis

Orchestra works

1904/1911 Scherzo Capriccio op.6
1909 Sinfonie of ideals op.11
1914 Sinfonie for violin and orchestra op.20
1918/1920 Sinfonie Démon op.23
1921 Sinfonie Renaissance op.15
1938 spring info. never op.38
1941 revolution ouvertuere OI 39

Chamber music

1936 third caper quartet op.37
1945 Nonet (without Opuszahl)

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