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Zdeněk Fibich (December 21 1850 – October 15 1900) was a Czech composer of classical music, including chamber works (including two string quartets, a piano trio, piano quartet and a quintet for piano, strings and winds), symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas, a best known probably the Bride of Messina; melodramas including the material trilogy Hippodamia, liturgical music including a mass - a missa brevis; & a big period (virtually 400 pieces, from either the Nineties) of piano works known as Moods, Impressions & Reminiscences among more works. the soft period served as a diary of kinda his love for a soft pupil.
He was natural around Vseborice (Seborice) touching Caslav ([http://www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/~phx1mr/author/f.html]). He exposed around Prague, around Leipzig using Ignaz Moscheles, Karl Richter and Salomon Jadassohn and in Paris). Around Paris inside 1868–9 he taught piano, late withdraw to Prague & working as a theater conductor, composing prodigiously.
Based on datthe from a view of one of his major operas Sarka ([http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/May02/Fibich_Sarka.htm]) he married all told 3 days, his number one married woman getting died, & over again allowing his 2nd married woman for the librettist of the opera (whose subject is besides easily-referred to as treated by Leos Janacek.)
His students involved Vitezslava Kapralova.
He died around 1900 inside Prague.
There is a Fibich Society which has organized projects like Hudec's Thematic Catalog beneath, & [http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/csms/csmsnew2.html much else].
Bibliography
Hudec, Vladimír. Zdenek Fibich. Praha, SPN, t. MTZ, Olomouc, 1971.
Hudec, Vladimír. Zdenek Fibich. Tematicky katalog Thematisches Verzeichnis. Praha, Editio Bärenreiter, 2002. ISBN 80-86385-10-8. 850 S. Text inside Tschechisch, Deutsch und Engl.
Jiránek, Jaroslav. Zdenek Fibich. Praha : Státní hudební vydavatelství, 1963.
A bit of of this page is paraphrased from either a Fibich entry in the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Music (Michael Kennedy, ed., Quaternary ed., 1996, revised 2004. ISBN 0-19-860884-Five. Oxford, Future York, Oxford University Click) & from either reviews of recordings of a works utilized within music journals (especially the Moods, Impressions & Reminiscences period.)
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