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Jiří Antonín Benda (1722-1795) was Czech composer of early classicism. Younger brother of František Benda. His works of that period are of great compositional importance, due in part to the liberal environment of the court, where the thoughts of French encyclopedists found strong acceptance and greatly influenced Benda. Rousseau's idea of a scenic melodrama stimulated Benda to create this new genre. In his dramatic and instrumental works, he preceded Beethoven in many things and, in the atmosphere of his work, even Romanticism. In 1778 he gave up his position, and the final years of his life were devoted to philosophical...

Jiří Schelinger was an iconic Czech rock singer and composer. His voice was one of the most characteristic and colourful vocals in Czech rock history. Despite his short life, Jiří created many everlasting hits like Holubí dům (The House of Pigeons) or Kartágo (Carthage). (and Robber Willy, Frozen strawberries, I am just a crazy) In 1981, at the age of 30 and from reasons unknown, Jiří died after jumping from the Old Bridge in Bratislava. As neither his relatives or close friends could identify his dead body, many of Schelinger's fans believe that he survived the jump and spend the...

Jiří Stivín (born 23 November 1942 in Prague, Czech Republic) is a Czech flute player and composer. Jiří Stivín has been interpreting pre-classical music on the recorder since 1975. After graduating from the cinematography department of the Prague Film Academy (FAMU), he devoted himself exclusively to music. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music as well as at the Prague Academy of Music, where he studied composition. His flute teachers were Milan Muncingler (Ars Revidiva) and Jiří Válek (Czech Philharmonic). Stivin performs music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Baroque periods. He has recorded flute concertos (Telemann...

Jiří Schmitzer is a Czech actor and singer-songwriter. He combines characteristic humour with folk rock sound of 12-strings guitar. Jiří's passion for wordplay is used not only in texts of songs but also in improvisating evenings in his home theater Ypsilon, where the audience chooses 10 words from which Jiří makes a song immediately. Jiří also loves to fill his own concerts with unintelligible sounds, changing the texts or ending in the middle of song saying the core of the story was said already. .

Jiří Korn is an important famous person in the Czech culture covering all spheres of music, dance and acting. He is known for his versatile abilities, originality and professional approach to every artistic performance. He has been the only singer in the Czech Republic who keeps his strong position on the top of popular music, and the first popularizer of modern trends. Step by step he has set up a huge range of his audience and important contacts and he influences culture in the whole Czech Republic this way. http://www.kornjiri.com/en/novinky.php .