Václav Smetáček
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Czech conductor, oboist, music educator and composer
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Vinony files it under 1906 births, 1986 deaths and 20th-century Czech classical composers.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Podezření — Conductor1973
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Václav Smetáček (30 September 1906 - 18 February 1986) was a Czech conductor, composer, and oboist. He studied in Prague among others with Jaroslav Křička, conducting with Metod Doležil and Pavel Dědeček, musicology, aesthetics, and philosophy at Charles University. He was the founder and member of the Prague Wind Quintet (1928), with whom he performed, composed and arranged compositions for it. From 1930 to 1933, he was a member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra <a href="https://www.last.f
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Václav
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovakia
- Place of birth
- Brno
- Place of death
- Prague
- Employer
- Charles University
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- oboe
- Official website
- smetacek.cz
- Image
- Václav Smetáček (Pestrý týden, 1936).png
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- The Adolescents
- place of burial
- Vyšehrad cemetery
- Commons category
- Václav Smetáček
- date of birth
- 1906-09-30
- date of death
- 1998-02-18
- student
- Libor Pešek
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Václav Smetáček, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
a) The barber of Seville, Figaro's aria: "Largo al factotum"; b) A masked ball, Renato's aria: "Alzati là tuo figlio"; c) La Traviata, E Strano . . . Ah ! fors' e lui; d) Rigoletto,Gilda's aria: "Gualtier Malde . . . Caro nome"; e) The magic flute, Tamino's aria: "Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön"
![Kouzelná flétna: Arie Tamina; (1st děj)/[Music:] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/[Libretto] Emanuel Schikaneder](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.slub-dresden.de%2Ffon%2Fsnp%2Fa%2F014000%2Ffon_snp_a_014000_01.jpg&type=IMAGE)
Kouzelná flétna: Arie Tamina; (1st děj)/[Music:] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/[Libretto] Emanuel Schikaneder
Kde domov můj (Ubi patria mea): concerto genuina a. 1834/František Škroup
Pastorella in Fa mai. : Jesus Christ natus est elargiens/Jiří Ignac Linek