Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann

Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (November 10, 1883, Ivanovice na Hané, Moravia – November 5, 1951, Prague) was a Czech organist, composer, and teacher.

He spent his early years in study under Josef Klička and Vítězslav Novák, and taught such notable pupils as Jiří Ropek, Bedřich Janáček, and Josef Černocký. Wiedermann gained great reputation as an organist, he performed in England (1924), New York (1924), Germany (1925), Sweden (1926), and Belgium (1935).^[1]

Selected works

His compositional output comprises 350 opus numbers of varied instrumentation and vocal formations.

Organ

• Tři skladby pro varhany (Three Pieces for Organ) (1912)
• Elegie (Elegy) (1920)
• Tři chorálové předehry (Three Choral Preludes) (1919–1927)
• Míťova ukolébavka (Míťa's Lullaby) (1935)
• Ukolébavka (Lullaby) (1939)
• Pod čs. vlajkou a rudým praporem (Under the Czechoslovak Flag and Under the Red Flag) (1946)
• Pastorale dorico (1942)
• Pastorale lydico (1945)

Violin

• Suita ve starém slohu (Suite in Old Style) - for violin and piano (1920) (orchestrated in 1939)

Songs

• Tři písně v lidovém tónu moravském (Three Songs on Themes of Moravian Folk Songs) (1913)
• Hanácke kolede (Hanakian Carols) (1936)
• Hanácky pěsničke (Hanakian Songs) (1948)

Choirs

• Dva mužské sbory (Two Male Choirs) (1935)
• Na křídech vánku (On the Wings of Breeze) (1945)

Cantatas

• Havéřská kantáta (Miner's Cantata) (1939)
• Kantáta ve starém slohu (Cantata in Old Style) (1941)

Sacred Music

• Miserere ad septem voces inaequales (1907–1911)
• Missa solemnis, Missa in quadragesima (1948)

References