Jan Tomáš Kuzník (1716, Uhřičice – 13 April 1786,

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) was a

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teacher of music, musician, composer and poet. He was active in the

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region.

Life

Kuzník was born in Uhřičice near

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. In 1739–1764 he worked in

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as a music teacher and organist. Most of his works comes from this period. He composed church and lay music whose texts concentrate on misery of peasantry and Prussian Wars (he wrote the texts himself). Some of his easier works, composed in

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style, are played until today. His son, Jan Karel Kuzník, was a collector of traditional folk songs and author of humoristic "map of

References

* Music journal "Hudební Věda" (''Musical Science'', published by

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