Vaclav Trojan
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 88 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5117-2939-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vaclav Trojan (April 24, 1907, Plzen – July 5, 1983) was a Czech composer of classical music best known for his film scores. Trojan studied composition at the Prague Conservatory under Jaroslav Kricka and Otakar Ostrcil from 1923 to 1927. He continued his studies in the composition masterclasses of Alois Haba, Josef Suk and Vitezslav Novak until 1929. A composer and arranger of dance and jazz music in the 1930s, he was a music director for Radio Prague from 1937 to 1945. After the end of World War II, Trojan composed most frequently for film, stage and radio, and developed a close association with director Jiri Trnka, earning international fame for his music for Trnka's popular animated puppet films. Trojan's music is mostly written in a neo-classical style, and he often drew inspiration from the traditions of Czech folk music. In 1940 he was given the Czech National Prize for his remarkable children’s opera Kolotoc (‘The Merry-Go-Round’),...