Josef Ceremuga

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The composer Josef Ceremuga started to learn the violin at the age of eleven at the Janacek School of Music in Ostrava-Vitkovice simultaneously with his studies at a secondary school. Upon graduating, he studied composition at the Faculty of Music of the Prague Academy of Perfoming Arts in the class of Jaroslav Ridky and Vaclav Dobias, and quarter-tone music with Alois Haba. After graduation he became one of the first post-graduate students at the Academy (1953 - 1956). Soon he assumed a prominent place in Czech musical culture not only as a composer, but also as an employee of important institutions. In 1967 he was named assistant professor at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Arts and Music where he was already active in the cabinet of sound composition. Since 1960 he was teaching at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in the cabinet of sound composition, between 1969 -1974 he was appointed Dean of that Faculty. Since 1980 he was a teacher at the Faculty of Music of the Academy, since 1982 as Professor of composition (until 1990). In 1981 he received the title 'Artist of Merit'. After "The Velvet Revolution" (1989) Ceremuga withdrew from the life in the public and ceased to compose, mainly due to his illness (he lost his sight). Josef Ceremuga's creation undergoes continuous development without distinct watersheds. He started off from the then still living Moravian folk music tradition and, in this connection, he was inspired by the works of Janac

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Hába, Ceremuga : Life´s Way - Hommage aux étudiants, Prague Sinfonietta

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Hába: Life's Way - Ceremuga: Hommage aux étudiants, Prague Sinfonietta

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Ceremuga, Krček: Symphonies

Academia Wind Quintet

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Symphony No 3

Hába • Ceremuga: Life's Way - Hommage aux étudiants - Prague Sinfonietta

Týden Soudobé Tvorby 1974

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