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.

Bibliography

• Hudec, Vladimír. Zdenek Fibich. Praha, SPN, t. MTZ, Olomouc, 1971.
• Hudec, Vladimír. Zdenek Fibich. Tematicky katalog Thematisches Verzeichnis. Praha, Editio Bärenreiter, 2002. ISBN 80-86385-10-8. 850 S. Text in Tschechisch, Deutsch und Engl.
• Jiránek, Jaroslav. Zdenek Fibich. Praha : Státní hudební vydavatelství, 1963.
• Some of this information is paraphrased from the Fibich entry in the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Music (Michael Kennedy, ed., 4th ed., 1996, revised 2004. ISBN 0-19-860884-5. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press) and from reviews of recordings of the works listed in music journals (especially the Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences cycle.)