Karel Weis
Authors · Musicians · bandleader · conductor · editing staff · ethnographer · folklorist · music teacher · musicologist · organist · pianist · publisher · violinist
Czech composer, collector of regional songs and organist (1862–1944)
About Karel Weis
Karel Weis (13 February 1862, in Prague – 4 April 1944, in Prague) was a Czech composer and musicologist. Weis studied at the Prague Conservatory; amongst his teachers was Antonín Bennewitz. He also took private lessons with Zdeněk Fibich.
He was for some years a violinist at the Prague National Theatre, and later conducted opera in Prague and Brno. He also acted as organist. Between 1928 and 1941, he published a fifteen volume collection of folk songs.
Among his many compositions are eleven operas, (three in Czech, and eight, of which six are operettas, in German), five of which premiered at the Prague State Opera. Czech nationalists however criticised him for setting German texts.
Quick facts
- Known for
- Saint Ludmila, The Polish Jew, Můj milej pod okýnkem-- Velebný pane-- Za mejch mladejch časů--
- Born
- 1862-02-13
- Died
- 1944-04-04
- Artist type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Praha
- Associated area
- Czechia
- Active period
- 1862-02-13 – 1944-04-04
- MusicBrainz description
- Czech composer, 1862-1944
- ISNI
- 0000000122815268
