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Happy 195th Birthday Karel Komzák I!!

"Waves of the Vltava". Karel Komzák I was born on 4 November 1823 in the village of Netûchovice near Týn nad Vltavou. He moved to Prague and founded his own orchestra which was so successful that in 1862 it became the resident orchestra of the newly-founded Prague Provisional Theatre, forerunner of the renowned National Theatre. Antonín Dvorák was a viola-player in this orchestra, which also included the conductor’s son, Karel II, on violin. Karel I left his orchestra in 1865 to take up the appointment of bandmaster to the Austro-Hungarian imperial army’s 11th Infantry Regiment. Over the next fifteen years he served with the regiment in a succession of locations from Trento, in the west, to Hradec Králové, in the east. Everywhere, both as bandmaster and composer, he was extremely popular and the band became noted for the regular inclusion of Czech folk-songs in concert programmmes. Then, after moving on to the 74th Infantry Regiment in 1880, Karel I found himself in less favourable circumstances where the performance of Czech national airs was forbidden. Consequently after only a year in this new post he left military service. In December 1882, however, when the authorities were looking for an accomplished bandmaster to undertake the formation of a military band for the newly-established 88th Infantry Regiment in Prague, Karel I was persuaded to take up this important appointment. Five years later, with the band flourishing, he finally retired for good at the end of April 1888, spending the rest of his days at Netûchovice, where he died in 1893. Of his reputedly more than two hundred compositions, we now know (thanks to the scholarly work of Max Schönherr) that a fair number have survived in various archives. At least two waltzes, forty-odd polkas, around twenty polka mazurkas, a handful of galops and quadrilles, and about fifteen marches still exist, either in printed or manuscript copies, mostly without opus numbers.

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Painting: Prague Charles Bridge And Prague Castle With The Vltava River
Artist: Yuriy Shevchuk
Date: 2008

Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice
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