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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.)

Zdenêk Fibich
Biography and recommended recordings.

Fibich, Zdenek
(1850-1900) Seborice, Czechoslovakia. Major works, CDs, books, sheet music, and bibliography, from stevenstradella.com.

Zdenek Fibich
Life and music from Classical Composers Database.

Classical CD Reviews- Feb 1999 ZDENEK FIBICH Hippodamia Trilogy Music on the Web (UK)
Review by Rob Barnett.

Czech Music | Dictionary | Fibich Zdenek
Biography, CDs, and sheet music.

Fibich, Zdenêk
Biography showing his influence on Czech music and standing among contemporaries, training and education, positions held, his teaching, and representative works. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.

Zdenêk Fibich (1850-1900)
Songs and cycles, most with German texts, many having English, Italian, or French translations from the Lied and Art Song Texts Pages at REC Music.

Zdenek Fibich
Brief biographical and musical notes with portrait, photograph of tomb, cemetery information, and virtual memorial.


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