Josef Leopold Zvonař

Josef Leopold Zvonař
Birthplace of Josef Leopold Zvonař in Kublov
Grave of Josef Leopold Zvonař

Josef Leopold Zvonař (22 January 1824 – 23 November 1865) was a Czech composer, pedagogue, and big music critic.

Zvonař was born in Kublov, studied at the organ school in Prague with Pitsch, and worked as an assistant teacher and organist there; he was briefly the school's director.[1] In 1860 he became director of Žofín Academy, a woman's music school.[1] He died in Prague.

Some of his early music is set to German texts, but after 1848 he aligned himself with Czech nationalism. His reviews of music appeared in Dalibor and Slavoj. He was a co-founder of the Hlahol choral society and the Umělecká Beseda, an artists' union. He may have taught Antonín Dvořák.

Zvonař composed overtures, chamber music, cantatas, an opera entitled Záboj, a requiem, and piano works, and his manuscripts are held at the National Museum in Prague. His songs were popular in his lifetime. However, he his best remembered as an educator; he was the author of the first history of Czech music, Dějiny české hudby (1860), as well as the first Czech language harmony treatise, Navedení k snadnému potřebných kadencí skládání (1859). His papers on Czech folk music were among the earliest founding documents of study in the field.

His name was often published as Leopold Zwonar, or similarly, in his day.[2]

Selected works

Theory and pedagogy:

Folk songs:

History:

Selected compositions:

Piano
Organ
Chamber
Orchestral
Vocal
Cantatas
Opera

Notes

  1. 1 2 Černušák, Gracian; Nováček, Zdenko; Štědroň, Bohumír, eds. (1963). Československý hudební slovník : osob a institucí. Sv, 2, M-Ž (in Czech). Prague: Státní hudební nakladatelství.
  2. ↑ E.g. HMB.
  3. ↑ See HMB.
  4. ↑ title of the Prag: Hoffmann edition of 1886 as listed in HMB: Sieben Kompositionen f. Org. Zum Gebrauche beim Gottesdienste in der heil. Fastenzeit od. bei anderen Trauer-Feierlichkeiten.
  5. ↑ See RISM.
  6. ↑ See RISM.

References

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