Zden?k Fibich

Zden?k Fibich (December 21 1850 – October 15 1900) was a Czech composer of classical music, including chamber works (including two string quartets, a piano trio, piano quartet and a quintet for piano, strings and winds), symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas, the most famous probably the Bride of Messina; melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia, liturgical music including a mass - a missa brevis; and a large cycle (almost 400 pieces, from the 1890s) of piano works called Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences among other works. The piano cycle served as a diary of sorts of his love for a piano pupil.

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December 21 - 1850 - October 15 - 1900 - Czech - Classical music - String quartet - Piano trio - Piano quartet - Quintet - Symphonic poem - Symphonies - Opera - Bride of Messina - Melodrama - Hippodamia - Mass

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He was born in Vseborice (Seborice) near Caslav (http://www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/~phx1mr/author/f.html). He studied in Prague, in Leipzig with Ignaz Moscheles, Karl Richter and Salomon Jadassohn and in Paris). In Paris in 1868–9 he taught piano, later moving back to Prague and working as a theater conductor, composing prodigiously.

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Caslav - Ignaz Moscheles - Karl Richter - Salomon Jadassohn

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According to a review of one of his major operas Sarka (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/May02/Fibich_Sarka.htm) he married in all three times, his first wife having died, and again leaving his second wife for the librettist of the opera (whose subject is also well-known as treated by Leos Janacek.)

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His students included Vitezslava Kapralova.

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He died in 1900 in Prague.

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There is a Fibich Society which has organized projects such as Hudec's Thematic Catalog below, and much else.

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