Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann

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Name Bedrich Wiedermann		Role Composer

Died November 5, 1951, Prague, Czech Republic Similar People Josef Klicka, Vitezslav Novak, Frantisek Brixi, Petr Eben

Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann - Toccata and fugue in F Minor

Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann (November 10, 1883, Ivanovice na Hane, Moravia – November 5, 1951, Prague) was a Czech organist, composer, and teacher.

He spent his early years in study under Josef Klicka and Vitezslav Novak, and taught such notable pupils as Jiri Ropek, Bedrich Janacek, and Josef Cernocky. Wiedermann gained great reputation as an organist, he performed in England (1924), New York (1924), Germany (1925), Sweden (1926), and Belgium (1935).

Selected works

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

Organ

Tri skladby pro varhany (Three Pieces for Organ) (1912)

Elegie (Elegy) (1920)

Tri choralove predehry (Three Choral Preludes) (1919–1927)

Mitova ukolebavka (Mita's Lullaby) (1935)

Ukolebavka (Lullaby) (1939)

Pod cs. vlajkou a rudym praporem (Under the Czechoslovak Flag and Under the Red Flag) (1946)

Pastorale dorico (1942)

Pastorale lydico (1945)

Violin

Suita ve starem slohu (Suite in Old Style) - for violin and piano (1920) (orchestrated in 1939)

Songs

Tri pisne v lidovem tonu moravskem (Three Songs on Themes of Moravian Folk Songs) (1913)

Hanacke kolede (Hanakian Carols) (1936)

Hanacky pesnicke (Hanakian Songs) (1948)

Choirs

Dva muzske sbory (Two Male Choirs) (1935)

Na kridech vanku (On the Wings of Breeze) (1945)

Cantatas

Haverska kantata (Miner's Cantata) (1939)

Kantata ve starem slohu (Cantata in Old Style) (1941)

Sacred Music

Miserere ad septem voces inaequales (1907–1911)

Missa solemnis, Missa in quadragesima (1948)

References

Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann Wikipedia

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Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann - Toccata and fugue in F Minor

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