Antonín Jiránek (''Anton Giranek'', c. 1712 – 16 January 1761) was a
Bohemia
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n violinist and composer.
Life
Born in
Mladá Boleslav
Mladá Boleslav (; german: Jungbunzlau) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 42,000 inhabitants.
Mladá Boleslav is the second most populated city in the region and a major centre of the Czech automotive ind ...
, Jiránek was trained in Prague. He was the first violinist in the royal chapel in Warsaw and later in the Polish court chapel in Dresden. He composed symphonies, concerts, trio sonatas and vocal music in
sensitive style
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. At the beginning of the 20th century, musicologists were able to attribute some of the works to his namesake
František Jiránek
František Jiránek (24 July 1698 – 1778) was a Czech ( Bohemian) Baroque composer, musician and very likely a student of Antonio Vivaldi.
Life
Jiránek was born on 24 July 1698 in Lomnice nad Popelkou (Northern Bohemia, present-day Czech Rep ...
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Robert Eitner Robert Eitner (22October 18322February 1905) was a German musicologist, researcher and bibliographer.
Life
Robert Eitner was born and grew up in Breslau, the rapidly industrialising administrative capital of Silesia. He attended the St. Elisabet ...
indicates that his daughter Franziska was the famous singer
"Madame Koch" Another daughter was the theatre actress
Karoline Krüger
Karoline Krüger (born 13 February 1970 in Bergen, Norway) is a Norwegian singer, actress and composer.
Career
Krüger's first TV appearance was at the age of 11, in a youth show called ''Halvsju''. She got her breakthrough in 1988, first by ...
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Jiránek died in
Dresden
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References
Further reading
* Alfred Baumgartner: ''Propyläen Welt der Musik''. Volume 3: ''Hauff - Menalt''. , Berlin 1989, , .
External links
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1710s births
1761 deaths
18th-century violinists
Czech classical violinists
Czech classical composers
People from Mladá Boleslav