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First name: Vaclav
Last name: Kucera
Dates: 1929
Category: Quartet
Nationality: czech
Opus name: Hic sunt homines, ciclo da camera per violine, viola, violoncelle e piano
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Peculiarities: See: http://www.musicbase.cz/compositions/4107-hic-sunt-homines-ciclo-da-camera-per-violino-viola-violoncello-e-piano/
Information: Czech composer, musicologist and pedagogue Václav Kučera studied musicology, aesthetics, philology musicology, aesthetics, philology at the Charles University in Prague (1948-51) and composition with Vissarion Shebalin and musicology with L.A.Maazel, V.A.Zuckerman, N.V.Tumanina in Moscow at theTchaikovski Conservatoire (1951-56). He graduated with the dance drama The Brigands Fire and a dissertation about Leoš Janáček. 1956-59 he worked at Czechoslovak Radio in Prague, 1959-62 he founded and headed the Cabinet for New Music Studies affiliated to the Union of Czechoslovak Composers. 1962-69 he worked as a musicologist in the Institute of Musicology in the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. From 1969 to 1983 he was the leading secretary of the Union of Czech Composers and Concert Artists. Since 1972 he has been teaching composition at the Music Faculty of the Academy for Performing Arts in Prague, since 1988 as professor. Since 1997 he is also professor of musicology at the Palacky University in Olomouc. 1978-82 he was member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), 1988-92 he was president of the International Music Festival Prague Spring, 1992-98 member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC).