Čelakovsky, František
František Čelakovsky (frän´tĬshĕk chĕ´läkôfskĬ), 1799–1852, Czech folklorist and poet. A disciple of Herder and a romantic Pan-Slavist, he collected Slavic folk songs from 1822 to 1827. These he later imitated in his own intricate free verses, Echoes of Russian Song (1829) and Echoes of Czech Song (1830). At Breslau he became (1841) the first professor of Slavic languages in a Central European university.
More From encyclopedia.com
Song , song. Short vocal comp., acc. or solo. Song is the natural human means of mus. self-expression (as it is for most birds). There are various types of… Folk Song , folk song, music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in rec… Woody Guthrie , Guthrie, Woody
Singer, songwriter, guitarist
“Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was a short, wiry guy VV with a mop of curly hair under a cowboy hat, as I first… Barcarolle , Barcarolle from Les contes d'Hoffmann. Retrieved by Offenbach from his much earlier opera, Die Rheinnixen, 1864 (a failure). In this it figured as a… Stephen Collins Foster , The American composer Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) was one of the first professional song-writers in the country, and his minstrel tunes, parti… Song Of Songs , The Song of Songs is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible of the third class, denominated hagiography, or kathūbhím. In the Greek version of the Old…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Čelakovsky, František