Neruda, Johann Baptist Georg (actually,Jan Krtitel Jirí)

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Neruda, Johann Baptist Georg (actually,Jan Křtitel Jiří)

Neruda, Johann Baptist Georg (actually,Jan Křtitel Jiří), Czech violinist and composer; b. probably in Rosice, c. 1707; d. Dresden, c. 1780. He received training in Prague, after which he played in a theater orch. there, becoming a member of the Dresden court orch. in 1750; he later was its Konzertmeister. He wrote the opera Les troqueurs, 18 syms., many concertos, trio sonatas, and church music.

—Laura Kuhn/Dennis Mclntire