Georg Ignaz (Jirí Ignác) Linek

Linek is an average and good exemplory case of a provincial eighteenth hundred years Czech composer. He skillfully mixed the rustic, tuneful, and dynamic components of Czech folk music with a good understanding of the most recent trends from your cities. He discovered the rudiments of music in the Mlada Boleslav, a significant provincial city for Czech music, from organist and composer Vaclav Cervenka. Following a typical pattern of that time period, he then visited Prague where he analyzed using the eminent organist and composer Josef Seger, organist in the popular Tyn Church around the aged city square. In 1735 he went to the Piarist gymnasium at Kosmonosy where Jiri Benda was one of is own fellow college students. In 1743 Linek made up many fanfares for the coronation in Prague of Maria Theresa as Queen of Bohemia. After time for Bakov, he effectively applied for the positioning of choirmaster; around the invert of his software, his employers mentioned his sound personality aswell as his capabilities as an organist and vocalist. On August 3, 1751, he wedded Terezie Capkova from Jicin and collectively that they had five kids, among whom passed away in childhood. Furthermore to his musical and administrative obligations, Linek was also a dynamic member of the neighborhood literary fraternity and became its elder in 1759. Bakov was ravaged by fireplace in 1774, which ruined much of the guts of the city, including Linek’s home & most of his books and music. Despite having the official placement, Linek resided in poverty. Quickly before his loss of life he appealed to the city regulators for an progress on his Xmas bonus, directing out his 44 many years of program to the city. He died quickly thereafter of tuberculosis. Linek’s making it through result is huge, though an intensive catalog or evaluation of his result is however to be produced. He constructed concertos and various other instrumental functions, though a lot of his result reveals the needs of his placement to compose for the choir. Furthermore to Latin he also had written many parts in the Czech vocabulary, mainly pastorellas for Xmas and pieces specialized in Czech saints. His most well-known work may be the enchanting Missa Pastoralis, that includes a last section in Czech predicated on the popular Xmas hymn Narodil se Kristus Pán (Christ god, the father exists to us).