Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann

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Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann

Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (November 10, 1883 in Ivanovice na Hané, Moravia – November 5, 1951 in Prague) was a Czech organist, composer, and teacher.

He spent his early years in study under Josef Klička and Vítězslav Novák, and taught such notable pupils as , , and . Wiedermann gained great reputation as an organist, he performed in England (1924), New York City (1924), Germany (1925), Sweden (1926), and Belgium (1935).[1]

Selected works[]

His compositional output comprises 350 opus numbers of varied instrumentation and vocal formations.

Organ

  • (Three Pieces for Organ) (1912)
  • (Elegy) (1920)
  • (Three Choral Preludes) (1919–1927)
  • (Míťa's Lullaby) (1935)
  • (Lullaby) (1939)
  • (Under the Czechoslovak Flag and Under the Red Flag) (1946)
  • (1942)
  • (1942)
  • (1945)

Violin

  • (Suite in Old Style) - for violin and piano (1920) (orchestrated in 1939)

Songs

  • (Three Songs on Themes of Moravian Folk Songs) (1913)
  • (Hanakian Carols) (1936)
  • (Hanakian Songs) (1948)

Choirs

  • (Two Male Choirs) (1935)
  • (On the Wings of Breeze) (1945)

Cantatas

  • (Miner's Cantata) (1939)
  • (Cantata in Old Style) (1941)

Sacred music

  • (1907–1911)
  • (1948)

References[]

  1. ^ ; (1963). (ed.). Československý hudební slovník II. M-Ž (in Czech). Prague: . pp. 950–951.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

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