Václav Tomášek
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10 Eglogues10 Variations on a Theme from 'Il sacrifizio interroto', Op.13 Allegri Capricciosi di Bravura, Op.523 Ditirambi, Op.655 Gedichte von Ebert, Op.696 Böhmische Lieder von Hanka, Op.716 Eglogues, Op.356 Eglogues, Op.396 Eglogues, Op.476 Eglogues, Op.516 Eglogues, Op.636 Eglogues, Op.666 Eglogues, Op.836 Gesänge aus Eberts 'Wlasta', Op.746 Lieder, Op.26 Lieder, Op.66 Rhapsodies, Op.406 Rhapsodies, Op.41E
Es ragt ins Meer der RunensteinG
Gedichte von Goethe, Op.54Grand Rondo, Op.11H
Hymni in sacro pro defunctis cantari soliti, Op.70L
Lenore, Op.12M
Messa con graduale ed offertorio, Op.46Mit schwarzen SegelnO
Overture in E-flat major, Op.38S
Sonatina in G majorWikipediaVáclav Jan Křtitel Tomášek (in German: Wenzel Johann Tomaschek; 17 April 1774, Skuteč, Bohemia – 3 April 1850, Prague) was an Austrian-Bohemian, by other accounts a Czech composer and music teacher. He was known as the Musical Pope of Prague. In the words of Kenneth Delong, “Highly opinionated, often sarcastic and projecting a sense of his own importance, Tomášek's memoirs also reveal him to be deeply concerned about all things artistic and intellectual: a man of courage and idealism, unflinching in his pursuit of truth in music and in life.”
As a pianist, he was an autodidact, becoming one of the most important piano teachers of Prague for a century. Tomasek studied violin and singing with Wolf. Until 1824 he worked as a piano teacher in aristocratic families. Afterwards he created a considerable school of music; among its most well-known pupils were
Jan Voříšek,
Alexander Dreyschock,
Johann Friedrich Kittl and
Eduard Hanslick. Tomášek made the acquaintance of Beethoven, and also of Goethe, whose poems he set. He maintained correspondence with the Polish pianist and composer Maria Agata Szymanowska. His autobiography was published in German, as well as in a Czech translation. He lived at number 15 Tomášská Street in Prague - the building bears a memorial plaque to him in Czech and German.
Tomášek wrote a good deal for the piano and became a forerunner of the lyric piano piece which later reached its apogee in the works of
Schubert and Chopin. At first he remained loyal to the Classical style, but later was influenced by the newly born Romanticism. An important part of his oeuvre are his songs. Besides songs to Goethe's German poems he composed also songs to the patriotic lyrics of Czech authors. He composed short pieces for glass harp and organ, and works for choir.
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