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Wenzel Horák
1800 - 1871
Czech Republic
Wenzel (Vaclav) Emanuel [Wenzel] Horák (01/01/1800 - 03/09/1871), a Bohemian composer, born in Lobec (Bohemia). Organist, church
composer, and writer on music, pupil of Josef Schubert ; was a good organist at the age of twelve. He entered the Gymnasium
at Prague in 1813, and while there sang in the choirs and played the organ in different churches, at the same time studying composition and theory from the works of Türk, Vogler, Albrechtsberger, and Cherubini. He became a favourite teacher, and in 1833 organist of the Theinkirche, in 1836 choir director of the Church of Maria-Schnee, in 1853 of the Adalbertskirche, and in 1859 again at the Theinkirche. In Bohemia he was considered one of the most sterling and productive church composers of modern
times. Works: 11 masses, and a Requiem for voices and orchestra, besides two masses and two Requiems for voices only ; Te Deum, graduals, offertories, etc. He published a work on harmony (Leipzig, 1846). Heindl, Gallerie der beruhmten Pädago-
gen, etc. (Munich, 1859).
Hymni in sacris pro defunctis
Hymni in sacris pro defunctis : usitati viris cantandi tubis barytonis adclangentibus, for tenor (2); bass (2) ; trombone (3); male choir; trombone (3). Printed: Prague, 1836.
Requiem in C minor
Requiem Mass in C minor, for chorus and orchestra, written as part of his Seu Hymni in
sacris pro defunctis usitati viris cantandi auctore.
Publisher: Augsburg, August Maillinger, Nr. 15; Signatur: A:Wdp D I/655.
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