Jaroslav Ježek

Jaroslav Ježek ( Prague , September 25th 1906 - New York , January 1 1942 ) was a Czech composer , conductor , pianist and dramaturge .



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*1 Life  ==[Life  edit ] == Ježek was already very ill young age. At 3 years of age he was blind in the right eye and the left eye he had since birth cataracts. Furthermore, he was deafened by scarlet fever. He studied at thePrague Conservatory, including composition with Karel Boleslav Jirák (1891-1972) until 1927. He then studied in the master classes of Josef Suk and Alois Hába and further studies piano at Albina Simy . Then he also studied briefly in Paris .
 * 2 Style
 * 3 Compositions
 * 3.1 Works for orchestra
 * 3.2 Works for band
 * 3.3 Stage Works
 * 3.4 Works for choir
 * 3.5 Vocal
 * 3.6 Chamber music
 * 3.7 Works for piano
 * 3.8 Film music
 * 4   Bibliography

His name is firmly connected to the Liberated theater (Osvobozené Divadlo) in Prague. His compositions on texts by Jan Werich and Jiří Voskovec made ​​a permanent part of the program of the revue-like performances in this theater. This kind of theater has so far been very popular throughout the Czech Republic. As an employee of an anti-fascist theater company he emigrated on January 8, 1939, together with Werich and Voskovec to the United States . He died on 1 January 1942 at the Cornell Hospital due to a serious illness. ==Style [  edit ] == Ježek is a composer between popular music and modern music. As a representative of the avant-garde, he is little known. He wrote about 30 works that him like Ervín Schulhoff and Pavel Haascharacterize as typical representative of Czech modern music. But his greatest fame he acquired in the Czech jazz and modern dance as "Tmavomodrý svět", "Hej rup", "Nebe after zemi", "Píseň strašlivá o Golemovi", "Saty dělaj človeka", "Klobouk ve krovi "" Život je jen náhoda "," Babička Mary "... and especially his" Bugatti step ". He wrote between 1928 and 1938 around 30 plays for theLiberated Theatre (Divadlo Osvobozené) for which he as a composer, arranger, music director, pianist and dramaturge in a person was employed.

He works also known as a composer of film music. ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Compositions  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Works for orchestra <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Works for band <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Stage Works <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">more than 20 works for the Liberated theater (Osvobozené Divadlo) ===Works for choir <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Vocal <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Chamber music <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Works for Piano <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[Film  music <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  === ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Bibliography  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 1927 Concerto for piano and orchestra
 * 1928 Nerves, suite from the ballet
 * 1930 Fantazie, for piano and orchestra
 * 1930 Mé vlasti, for piano and orchestra
 * 1936 Symfonická bases
 * Jeppe's kopečku
 * Písně, for piano and orchestra
 * Pochod karnevalu UMELECKÉ besedy, march
 * SMES
 * 1930 Concerto for violin and band
 * 1927 Svatebcane after Eifelce
 * 1927 Pojisteni proti sebevrazde
 * 1927 Kamarád Čtvrtek
 * 1927 Jeppe's kopecku
 * 1929 Malborough do boje tahne
 * 1930 Giovanni a Anabella
 * 1936 Jezero Ukereve
 * 1936 Timon athensky
 * 1937 Pani Studanka
 * 1937 Don Juan
 * Zpívající Benatky
 * 1929 Nervy, a small female choir and orchestra
 * Svět patří nám, for mixed choir and orchestra
 * In 1928 - the 1,938th Pisnicky, extract of 35 songs from the Liberated Theatre (Osvobozené Divadlo) in Prague for solo voice and piano
 * Tři písně (Three Songs) for solo voice and chamber orchestra
 * Ještě několik Melodii, for solo voice and piano
 * Láska má právo necessarily SMAT, coloratuurwals about "Svět za mřížemi" for soprano and orchestra
 * Pisnicky o Čtveráku Pierotovi, for solo voice and piano - Text: Fr. Halas
 * Šest písní, for solo voice and piano
 * 1929 Serenade for winds quartet
 * 1932 String Quartet no. 1
 * 1933 Sonata for violin and piano
 * 1941 String Quartet no. 2
 * 1927 Suitu for quartz-tone piano
 * 1928 Sonatina
 * 1928 Petite Suite (Little Suite)
 * 1931 Polonéza the revue "Golem"
 * 1932 Capriccio
 * 1933 Due bagatelle
 * 1938 Rhapsodie
 * 1939 Toccata
 * 1939 Grand Valse Brillante
 * 1941 Sonata
 * Balety
 * Bugatti Step
 * Býčí zápasy, paso doble for piano
 * Dvě skladby z Malé suity (Two pieces from the "Petite Suite") for piano
 * Intermezzo
 * Oh, girls!
 * 1931 They soboty after neděli
 * 1931 Pudr a benzin
 * 1932 peníze nebo život
 * 1934 Hej rup!
 * 1934 U nás v Kocourkově
 * 1937 Svět patří nám
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 * Jan Knob: neznámý Jaroslav Ježek. [Unbekannter Jaroslav Ježek), G 66. 2 (1966), No. 10, S. 1, 4.
 * Čeněk Gardavský: Contemporary Czechoslovak composers, Prague: Panton, 1965. 565 p.
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 * Jan Löwenbach: Czechoslovak Composers and Musicians in America, in: Musical Quarterly, 3 (1943): 324-326.