Jitka Snížková born Skrhova (1924–1989) was a

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composer, music educator and musicologist. She studied composition with Alois Haba at the Prague Conservatory and later taught music theory at the same institution. Her creative output includes piano, chamber, orchestral, choral, and vocal compositions. As the President of the Mozart Society, an organization that owned Bertramka, she was pressured into donating the property to the National Committee of Prague in 1986. Bertramka was the villa where

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stayed while he was in

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and where he completed his opera ''

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''. After Snizkova's sudden death, the Mozart Society contested the donation.

Compositions

For a near complete list of works refer t
this database of Czech women composers

Published research

Snizkova also specialized in research in medieval and Renaissance music from Czech archives, and edited several collections of this music including: *''Book of Minuets'' from Kutná Hora, Kutnohorská knížka menuetů, ed. by Jitka Snížková

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