Karel Husa

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Karel Husa (August 7, 1921 – December 14, 2016) was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. In 1954 he went to the United States and became an American citizen in 1959. Husa learned to play the violin and the piano in early childhood and, after passing his final examination at high school, he enrolled in the Prague Conservatory in 1941 where he studied in a class of Jaroslav Řídký, and attended courses in conducting led by Metod Doležil and Pavel Dědeček. After the end of the Second World War, Husa was admitted to the graduate school of the Prague Academy, where he attended courses led by Řídký and graduated in 1947. At the same time, he decided to continue his studies of composition and conducting in Paris. In 1947 he studied with Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boulanger. He studied conducting with Jean Fournet, Eugène Bigot and André Cluytens. After finishing his courses in conducting at École Normale de Musique de Paris and at Conservatoire de Paris he embarked on a career during which he has conducted the world's leading orchestras and participated in many major projects. He divided his time between composing and conducting, taking an ever more active part in Parisian and international musical life. His First String Quartet marked a big step on the composer's path to the realm of international music: the Quartet received the 1950 Lili Boulanger Award

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KAREL HUSA: The Trojan Women , Fantasies For Orchestra , Divertimento For Brass Ensemble And Percussion

Composer's Collection: Karel Husa

HUSA: Music for Prague 1968 / Reflections / Fresque

The Music of Karel Husa: Apotheosis of this Earth

North Texas Wind Symphony: Recollections

Husa: Trumpet Concertos

Husa: Music for Prague

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Husa, Martinů: Music for Clarinet

KAREL HUSA: String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3

Visions in Metaphor

Karel Husa: Recollections

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