Karel Weis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karel Weis

Czech composer, collector of regional songs and organist

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1862

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1944

Profession: composer, conductor, organist, folklorist, musicologist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Karel Weis (13 February 1862, in Prague – 4 April 1944, in Prague) was a Czech composer. Weis studied in Prague; amongst his teachers was Fibich.
He was for some years a violinist at the Prague National Theatre, and later conducted opera in Prague and Brno.
Between 1928 and 1941, he published a fifteen volume collection of folk songs. Among his many compositions are eleven operas, (three in Czech, and eight, of which six are operettas, in German), five of which premiered at the Prague State Opera.
Czech nationalists however criticised him for setting German texts.



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
Authority control	: Q939204 VIAF: 83956205 ISNI: 0000 0000 5653 9444 GND: 1078924600 NKC: jk01142380