Jaroslav Kvapil (composer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jaroslav Kvapil (composer)

Czech composer, pianist and choirmaster

Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1892

Place of Birth: Fryšták, Zlín Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 18-Feb-1958

Profession: composer, conductor, pianist, organist, choir director, librettist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Jaroslav Kvapil (21 April 1892 – 18 February 1958) was a Czech composer, teacher, conductor and pianist. Born in Fryšták, he studied with Josef Nešvera and worked as a chorister in Olomouc from 1902 to 1906.
He then studied at the Brno School of Organists under Leoš Janácek, earning a diploma in 1909.
He studied with Max Reger at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1911 through 1913. Kvapil was an excellent accompanist, noted for his skill in sight reading.
As the choirmaster and conductor of the Brno Beseda (1919–47) he gave the world première of Janácek's Glagolitic Mass, and the Czech premières of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion (1923), Arthur Honegger’s Judith (1933) and Karol Szymanowski’s Stabat mater (1937).
He received the Award of Merit in 1955.
He taught at the School of Organists and at the Brno Conservatory, and he was appointed professor of composition at the academy in 1947.
His students included Hana Janku, Miloslav Ištvan, Ctirad Kohoutek, Cestmír Gregor and Jirí Matys.
He died in Brno at the age of 65.