Emanuel Chvála (January 1, 1851 in

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– October 28, 1924 in Prague) was a Czech composer and music critic. He studied engineering and worked all his life as a railway official in Prague. But he had also studied composition with Fibich and Josef Foerster, and began writing music criticism for the literary magazine ''

Lumír ''Lumír'' is a weekly literary magazine that was established in 1851 by Ferdinand Břetislav Mikovec. It was the focal point of the neo-romantic nationalist poet Jaroslav Vrchlický and his Ossianic followers.Arne Novák & William Edward Harkin ...

'' in 1878. He also wrote for the daily newspapers ''Politik'' and ''Národní politika'' between 1880 and 1921 using the cypher ‘-la’. In his journalism he furthered the music of Dvořák, Fibich, Josef Suk and

Vítězslav Novák Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (5 December 1870 – 18 July 1949) was a Czech composer and academic teacher at the Prague Conservatory. Stylistically, he was part of the neo-romantic tradition, and his music is considered an important e ...

Works

* '' Záboj'' (1918), an opera to a poem by

Jaroslav Vrchlický Jaroslav Vrchlický (; 17 February 1853 – 9 September 1912) was a Czech people, Czech lyrical poet. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel prize in literature eight times. Life He was born Emilius Jakob Frida in Louny ...

. * ''O posvícení'' (1902), an orchestral poem describing the day of the kermis in a Czech village. (WP: 16. February 1902 by the

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under

Ludvík Čelanský Ludvík or Ludvik is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Ludvík Aškenazy (1921–1986), Czech writer and journalist *Ludvik Buland (1893–1945), Norwegian trade unionist *Ludvík Čelanský (1870–1931), Czech conductor and co ...

)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chvala, Emanuel Czech composers Czech male composers 1851 births 1924 deaths Composers from Austria-Hungary