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Neumann, František (1874–1929)| Czech composer and conductor. He conducted the first performances of Janáček's Káta Kabanová, The Cunning Little Vixen, Šárka, and The Makropoulos Case. |
| He started in a commercial and military career, but went to study music at the Leipzig Conservatory. After filling various chorus-master's and conductor's posts at German and Czech theatres, he went to Brno as chief conductor at the National Theatre. |
Works Opera Idalka, Die Brautwerbung (1901), Liebelei (on Schnitzler's play, 1910), Herbststurm (1919), Beatrice Caracci (1922). |
Stage music melodrama Pan; ballets In Pleasant Pastures, The Peri, Pierrot. |
Orchestral symphonic poem Infernal Dance, suite The Sunken Bell, Moravian Rhapsody, overtures for orchestra. |
Other octet, piano trio choruses, songs, Masses, and motets. |
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