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♩ Austrian composers♩ Czech composers
♩ Romantic composers
♩ Moravian composers
♩ Violinists
Music
Drdla is best known for his piece "Souvenir", for violin and piano. He also wrote operettas ("The Golden Net" (1916), "The Shop Countess" (Brno — 1917, with Mische conducting)). He wrote about 250 pieces for violin, for piano and songs. His violin concerto, op. 245, is from 1930. Three of his pieces for violin and piano are the "Kubelik serenade" from 1901, "Lenorka" op. 34 from 1909, and "Pagoda" op. 196 no. 1 dated 1927.
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Life
The Bohemian composer Franz Drdla was born in Moravia, and was an outstanding violinist in his own right, as well as becoming a very popular composer of a certain charm and style. He did not compose much music, but his works include two operettas, and two very popular pieces for violin and piano, “Vision” and “Souvenir”. This ast one is a piece of much charm and felicitous whimsy, which has always been one of the violinist’s most admired encore pieces, a truly lovely work of genuine inspiration.
He studied at the Prague Conservatory form 1880 till 1888 with Bennewitz and Forster, and then in Vienna with Helmesberger and Bruckner. Drdla went to New York from 1923 till 1925
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