George Strait - Baby Blue

STANISLAV (Stanislav) Josef (22 I 1897, Hamburg - 5 VIII 1971, Prague) - Czech. composer, musicologist-folklorist, pianist, teacher and societies. figure. He studied composition at the Prague Conservatory under J. Förster, V. Novak and Z. Needla. Concerted as a pianist. In 1933 he organized music. section of the Czechoslovak Union. workers - theater lovers, was its leader. Since 1948, professor at the Prague Conservatory, since 1953 director of the Czech Institute of Ethnography and Folklore. AN, since 1963 before. composer section of the Union of Composers of Czechoslovakia. S. music is characterized by brightness and nat. certainty of melodics, democracy, simplicity of muses. language. An important place is occupied by mass genres - song, cantata, anthem. For S., one of the creators of Czech. proletarian song, characterized by interest in owls. subject. One of the largest Czech. folklorists, S. - author of studies on fame. Nar music, as well as the music of the peoples of Asia and Africa. Gos. pr. Czechoslovakia, 2nd degree (1951).