Josef Richard Rozkošný (21 September 1833 – 3 June 1913) was a Czech composer and pianist.''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', 1996, p. 111, John Hamilton Warrack, Ewan West. ("Others who successfully built upon Smetana's example included Richard Rozkosny (1833–1913),

Vilém Blodek Vilém Blodek, born Vilém František Plodek (October 3, 1834, Prague – May 1, 1874, Prague), was a Czech composer, flautist, and pianist. Biography Blodek was born into a poor family and was educated at a German Piarist school in Prague. Af ...

(1834–74), Karel Bendl (1838–97), Josef Nešvera (1842–1914), Karel Šebor (1843–1903), and Karel Weiss (1862–1944). He was born and died in

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, where he studied music.

Works

Operas

* ''Ave Maria'',

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by V. Trappl; unperformed, lost (1855 or 1856) * ' (''Saint Nicholas'') 1870 * ''

St John's Rapids St. John's rapids (''Svatojánské proudy'') was a stretch of fast flowing water on the Vltava. It was situated at the place of today's Štěchovice Reservoir. In music The rapids were part of the inspiration for Smetana's ''Má vlast (), al ...

'' (Czech: ''Svatojanské proudy'') (about the

on the

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) also called ''Vltavská víla'' (''The Spirit of the Vltava'') 1871; performed in German as * ' (about

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, 1250–1290) 1877 * ''Mladí pytláci'' (''The Young Poachers'') 1877, libretto by , unperformed, lost * ''Alchymista'' (''The Alchemist'') 1880, libretto also by Böhm, also unperformed, lost * ' (''Cinderella'') 1885 * ' (''The

Rübezahl Rübezahl (, ; ) is a folkloric mountain spirit ( woodwose) of the Giant Mountains (, , hence his name in Czech and Polish), a mountain range along the border between Czechia and Poland. He is the subject of many legends and fairy tales in Germa ...

Spirit'') 1889 * ' 1894 * ', also ''Satanella'' 1898 * ' (''Black Lake'', the

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) also ''Šumavská víla'' (''The Spirit of the Šumava Forest'' ) 1906 * ''Rusalka'' (unfinished)

Selected recordings

* ''Svatojanské proudy'', scene from act 1 in Czech, Ivan Kusnjer as the count, 1987 for

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; conductor

References

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