Jiří Pauer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jiří Pauer

Czech music educator and composer

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1919

Place of Birth: Kladno, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 21-Dec-2007

Profession: composer, musicologist, music pedagogue

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Jirí Pauer czech pronunciation (22 February 1919 in Libušín, Czechoslovakia – 28 December 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech composer. Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and finally with Pavel Borkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
He later taught for many years at the Academy where his pupils included composer Jirí Gemrot.
He has composed many pieces, many of which focus on the brass orchestral instruments, symphonies, and further orchestra pieces, a bassoon concerto, a horn concerto and a trumpet concerto, chamber music pieces, and piano pieces.
His opera Zdravý nemocný, based on Molière's Le Malade imaginaire, premiered at the Prague National Theatre on 22 May 1970. In 1989 Jirí Pauer was dismissed from his post as general director of the National Theatre in Prague, because of his support for the policies of the former Communist Czechoslovak government.
Pauer had locked staff out of the National and Smetana theatres on 17 November 1989 to prevent the opera, ballet and drama companies from staging protest performances.
After a three-week strike Pauer was replaced by Ivo Žídek.