Kašpar Mašek

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Kašpar Mašek

Kašpar Mašek or Gašpar Mašek (6 January 1794 – 13 May 1873) was a Czech-Slovenian composer.

The son of Vincenc Mašek, he was born and spent his early life in Prague and his later life in Slovenia, where he had a successful career as a composer for the theater.^[1] He composed operas, operettas, church music, and cantatas.^[1] Among his works are the patriotic Slovenian Overture (1870). He died in Ljubljana. His son Kamilo Mašek (1831-1859) was also a composer.

References

Simpson/Peskova, "Kašpar Mašek". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan, 2001.

Notes

↑ 1.0 1.1 Černušák, Gracián (ed.); Štědroň, Bohumír; Nováček, Zdenko (ed.) (1963). Československý hudební slovník II. M-Ž. Prague: Státní hudební vydavatelství. p. 62. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help) (Czech)

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Name	Masek, Kaspar
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Short description	Slovenian composer
Date of birth	6 January 1794
Place of birth
Date of death	13 May 1873
Place of death

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