Composer Jan Vičar

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Composer Jan Vičar

Original language description

The article presents Jan Vičar (1949), a university teacher, musicologist, organizer and composer, who is one of the leading personalities of contemporary Czech music and musicology. He spent most of his professional life at the Palacký University in Olomouc. Since 1980, he has also been teaching at the Music Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He is currently the guarantor of doctoral studies at the Department of Music Education and Culture of the Faculty of Education of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and the editor-in-chief of the English-language magazine Paedagogia Musica.In the field of musicology, he focuses on musical aesthetics, music criticism, theory, history, aesthetics of Czech music of the 20th century, the work of Leoš Janáček and critical music editions. He published more than 200 works in both Czech and foreign magazines and anthologies. He is the author or co-author of nine professional books published in the Czech Republic and the USA. The personality of Jan Vičar is characterized by the breadth of interests and the resulting number of scientific, artistic and organizational activities. In addition to all his activities, Prof. Vičar never stopped devoting himself to composing. Among more than 120 compositions, we find both vocal compositions for solo voices or for all types of choirs (see below), as well as instrumental - orchestral or chamber compositions for various instruments. His compositional work is characterized by its considerably wide range of genres, styles and functions, both folklore inspirations and jazz elements appear, as well as contemporary rational compositional techniques.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů