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Václav Emanuel Horák

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Horák, Václav Emanuel (1800-1871). Composer, organist, pedagogue and church music director in Prague. Held positions at various important Prague churches, including that of St Adalbert [Sv Vojtěch] and St Mary of the Snows [Kostel Panny Marie Sněžné / Maria Schnee]. Director of the Žofín Academy, October 1850-51. Active as a writer of works of music theory, of singing and harmony. His compositions in the main comprised sacred works and Czech secular songs and choruses. Mercy’s Anzeiger 23/9/1854 noted in its obituary notices the death of Horák’s son Edmund, aged 13, from a fit [an der Darrsucht]. One of the five founders member of the musical circle of the Umělecká beseda.

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