Weinberger, Jaromír

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Weinberger, Jaromír (b Prague, 1896; d St Petersburg, Florida, 1967). Cz.-born composer (Amer. cit.). Taught at Ithaca Cons., NY, in 1922, then worked in Prague, Vienna, etc. Fled to USA 1939 at the time of the Anschluss. Prolific composer of operas, operettas, orch. works, religious mus., songs, etc., but achieved success with 2 works, the opera Švanda Dudák (Schwanda the Bagpiper) (1927) and the Variations and Fugue on Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree for orch. (1939, rev. 1941).

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