Karel Boleslav Jirák - Little Suite for Piano Op.12

Daniel Wiesner - Piano
00:00 Praeludium
01:47 A la Polka
03:25 Andante
07:14 Scherzino
09:46 Fughetta
Karel Boleslav Jirák (1891-1972) was a Czech composer. Jirák became a pupil of Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Vítězslav Novák at the Charles University and at music academy in Prague. From 1920-30, he was a composition teacher at the Prague Conservatory, and principal conductor of the Czechoslovak Radio Orchestra until 1945.
In 1947, he emigrated to the United States, where from 1948 to 1967 a professor at Roosevelt University, Chicago, and, in 1967, a composition teacher at the Conservatory college in Chicago. He remained in this position until 1971.
He wrote six symphonies and several symphonic variations.

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