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Artist
Jaromir Weinberger
12+ albums
Classicaloperavocalcomposeramerican
about
Jaromír Weinberger (January 8, 1896 – August 8, 1967) was a Czech American composer. Weinberger was born in Prague, from a family of Jewish origin. He heard Czech folksongs from time spent at his grandparents' farm as a youth.[1] He started to play the piano at age 5, and was composing and conducting by age 10. He began musical studies with Jaroslav Křička. Later teachers included Václav Talich and Rudolf Karel. He became a student at the Prague Conservatory at age 14, as a second-year student. There, he studied composition with Vítězslav Novák and Karel Hoffmeister. Later, at Leipzig, he studied with Max Reger and assumed into his own technique Reger's immense grasp of counterpoint. In September 1922, almost inexplicably, Weinberger moved to the United States where he took up a position as an instructor at Cornell University.[2] Between 1922 and 1926 he was professor of composition at the Ithaca Conservatory (currently Music School of Ithaca College), New York. When he returned to Czechoslovakia he was appointed director of the National Theater in Bratislava, and later received appointments in Eger, Hungary, and Prague. In 1926 Weinberger completed Švanda Dudák (Schwanda the Bagpiper) which became one of the most popular operatic works between the wars, with thousands of performances in hundreds of theaters including the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Although none of his subsequent European works captured audiences as Švanda Dudák had, such pieces as the Passacaglia
top songs
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Polka from Schwanda the Bagpiper (Erich Kunzel, Cincinatti Pops)
812Polka and Fugue (arr. for wind band)
363Act II Scene 1: Devil's Polka
304Act II Scene 1: Co vidim? Karty? (What do I see? Cards?) (Babinsky)
295Act I Scene 2: Polka
286Act II Scene 2: Toz pribeh se konci (So the story ends) (Babinsky)
277Overture
268Act I Scene 2: Jsem tva, jsem tva (I'm yours, I'm yours) (Queen)
249Act I Scene 3: Uz dohral! (Already finished!) (Magician)
2310Act II Scene 1: Rad odpoved dam (I'll answer you gladly) (Babinsky)
22albums
Weinberger: Svanda dudak
Wagner, R.: Wesendonck Lieder / Mahler, G.: Kindertotenlieder / Weinberger, J.: Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree
Voyages
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Orchestral Spectaculars
California Polytechnic State University Wind Ensemble Live! In the Walt Disney Concert Hall
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Schwanda the Bagpiper
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New World Symphony (Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
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Hopkins Symphony Orchestra: October 2007 Performance
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The complete EMI recordings - Volume 1 - cd 46
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Dvořák: Symphony #9; Smetana: The Bartered Bride, Etc.
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Telarc Collection, Vol. 2
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Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture