Pavel Křížkovský

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Pavel Křížkovský (Germanized as Karel Krischkowsky) (born Kreutzendorf, Silesia, January 9, 1820 - died Brno, May 8, 1885) was a Czech choral composer and conductor.

Křížkovský was a chorister in a monastery in Troppau when young, and studied philosophy in Brno and Olomouc. He became an Augustinian friar in 1845, entering the St Thomas's Abbey, Brno, and was named choirmaster there in 1848. He founded two choral societies in Brno, and gave choral and chamber music concerts there regularly. Among his choral students was Leos Janacek. Křížkovský was a dedicated Slavic culturalist, and often gave performances of lesser-known Moravian and Czech composers before withdrawing from secular musicianship in the 1870s as a result of the Cecilian movement. Following this he became choir director at a cathedral in Olomouc, and retired in 1877.

Most of Křížkovský's compositional output consists of choral settings of folk songs and sacred vocal music. His best known work is the cantata Sts. Cyril and Methodius.