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ZVONAE, JOSEF LEOPOLD

By Grove Dictionary on July 7, 2013 in Z

(ft. Kublov, near Prague, 1824 ; d. Prague, 1865), Czech musical pedagogue and composer, director of the Organ School, Prague, and one of the founders of tho famous choral society Hlahol (1801) and the Umeleckd Beseda (Society of Arts). He composed songs, masses, two o H a y d n h a d a hitrh e s te em fo r Zums teeir. O r ie a in e e r w ro te to H & r te l : ' H a y d n Is m u c h d is t re s s e d a t Z um s te e g 'a d e a t h ; h e h a d plenty o f im a g in a t io n , a n d a One s e n s e o f f o rm . ' Requiems and several humorous choruses, but is more highly valued as a theorist. His chief books were educational. A valuable publication is Monuments of Early Czech Music (1860- 1864), which drew attention to the old contrapuntal school of Bohemian composers. R. N.

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