Pavel Křížkovský, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pavel Křížkovský

Czech music educator, composer, pianist, organist and roman catholic priest

Date of Birth: 09-Jan-1820

Place of Birth: Holasovice, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 08-May-1885

Profession: composer, clarinetist, conductor, Catholic priest, pianist, organist, violist, choir director, music pedagogue

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Pavel Krížkovský (born as Karel Krížkovský) (January 9, 1820 - May 8, 1885) was a Czech choral composer and conductor. Krížkovský was born in Kreuzendorf, Opava District, Austrian Silesia.
He was a chorister in a monastery in Opava when young, and studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of University of Olomouc and later in Brno.
The palace, in which Križkovský lived from 1878 to 1883, is now used as the Palacký University of Olomouc Rectory.
He became an Augustinian friar in 1845, entering the St.
Thomas's Abbey, and was named choirmaster there in 1848.
He founded two choral societies in Brno, and gave choral and chamber music concerts there regularly.
Among his choral students was Leoš Janácek.
Krížkovský was a dedicated Slavic culturalist, and often gave performances of lesser-known Moravian and Czech composers before withdrawing from secular musicianship in the 1870s as a result of the Cecilian movement.
Following this he became choir director at a cathedral in Olomouc, and retired in 1877.
He died in Brno. Most of Krížkovský's compositional output consists of choral settings of folk songs and sacred vocal music.
His best known work is the cantata Sts.
Cyril and Methodius.



Alternative names	Jan Vilimek
Description	Austrian-Czechoslovak portrait painter
Date of birth/death	1 January 1860	15 April 1938
Location of birth/death	Žamberk	Vienna
Work location	Prague, Vienna
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