Jarmil Burghauser
Jarmil Michael Burghauser (born Jarmil Michael Mokrý, 21 October 1921, Písek19 February 1997, Prague) was a Czech composer, conductor, and musicologist. After the short-lived Prague Spring, he incurred the disfavor of his country's Communist regime and had to adopt the pseudonym Michal Hájků in order to write a series of compositions in a style which evoked earlier periods of music, called ''Storia apocrifa della musica Boema''. Cataloguing of Dvořák's works Burghauser created a reliable catalog of works by Antonín Dvořák. It is to replace the traditional opus number In musicology, the opus number is the "work number" that is assigned to a musical composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's production. Opus numbers are used to distinguish among compositio ..., which is not only incomplete but also confusing for the case of Dvořák. Today academic references to Dvořák's works often use the Burghauser number ...
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Písek
Písek (; german: Pisek) is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 30,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Písek is colloquially called "''South Bohemian Athens''", because it has many high schools and schools of higher education, including the Film School in Písek. Up to the last decades of 19th century Písek was the centre of the large autonomous Prácheňsko region. Administrative parts Písek is made up of five town parts and four villages: *Budějovické Předměstí *Hradiště *Pražské Předměstí *Václavské Předměstí *Vnitřní Město *Nový Dvůr *Purkratice *Semice *Smrkovice Etymology The name of Písek literally means "sand". It refers to the sand of the Otava River, which was panned for gold by the first settlers. Geography Písek is located about northwest of České Budějovice and south of Prague. Most of the municipal territory lies in the Tábor ...
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