Frantisek Kmoch

Kmoch studied the violin in Zasmuky, Kolin and in Prague when he attended university. He came back to his house in 1869 teaching in college and composing and playing for regional affairs. Because of politics intrigue, Kmoch was suspended from his teaching obligations, visited Kolin and collected musicians able and numerous plenty of to execute symphonic music. As the fame of the group spread these were in a position to tour in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia aswell as Krakow, Budapest, Novgorod, Gorky and Vienna. These were actually invited to america. The over 3 hundred compositions to Kmoch’s credit had been mainly vocal marches predicated on Czech folk melodies. He also made up dances especially waltzes. As the creator from the Czechoslovakian music group motion, Kmoch became the main topic of a film and an operetta by Jankovec.