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First name: Jan
Last name: Hanus
Dates: 1915-2004
Category: Quartet
Nationality: czech
Opus name: Klavirni Kvartet Opus 120 (1995)
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Peculiarities: See: http://www.musicbase.cz/compositions/11451-klavirni-kvartet-duverne-rozhovory-op-120/
Information: JAN HANUS studied composition privately with Otakar Jeremias and at the same time was educated in conducting at Prague Conservatory. Then he worked as an editor (later an editor-in-chief) in the publishing houses now succeeded by Supraphon. He was a manager of the publishing house of the Czech Music Fund Panton, further on he was active in the Union of Czechoslovak Composers, he was the chairman of the Czech Company for Music Education, a member of the managing committee of ISME (the International Society for Music Education) and the chairman of its Czech section, the vice-chairman of the Czech Music Company, a member of the festival committee of Prague Spring. As an editor he has signed the editions of the collected works of Antonin Dvorak and Zdenek Fibich, he was a co-operator of the critical publication of Leos Janacek's work, etc. In his composer's work Jan Hanus is following up the Czech Smetana and Dvorak tradition in the traces of his teacher Otakar Jeremias. They both, too, share a sense for the subjective relevance of works, a broadminded architectonics, a full to bursting orchestral sound and an unfailing musical-dramatic imagination. Hanus's access to compositional tasks is a searching one, that's why the evolutionary line of his production was changing, always aiming at new conceptions. Nevertheless there are no violent ups and downs in Mr Hanus's work: his idiom includes constant elements, especially in melodics, rhythmics and instrumentation, which pass all phases of his compositional development.