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František Zdeněk Xavier Alois Skuherský (July 31, 1830 – August 19, 1892) was a

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composer,

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, and theoretician. Born in Opočno to František Alois Skuherský, the doctor of Duke

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and founder of the Opočno hospital. He graduated from the

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gymnasium and studied philosophy and shortly medicine at Charles University. Also in

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, he graduated from an organ school. In music, especially composing, he paid attention since childhood. He signed his first works in the pseudonym ''Opocensky.'' After his studies, he made a living by teaching people music in their homes. In the years 1854 to 1866 he was a theatre kapellmeister in Innsbruck and conductor of the town's singing choir, and later director of the University's cathedral. During this time he composed six operas, some of which premiered at Innsbruck. After the death of his wife, who gave him three children, he came back to Prague where in 1866 he became the director of a prominent organ school until he retired in 1890. This school was attended by such famous composers as

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and

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. At the same time he worked as a regenschori at a Prague cathedral, a teacher of music theory at a Czech University, and continued studying and composing Church music to the end of his life. He died in

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where he is remembered by a street named after him.

Selected works

Piano * ''Pensées du soir'', Op. 10 (1854) * ''Preghiera'' (1881) * ''Vzpomínka na Zákupy'' Op. 19 Organ * Studies, Op. 13, 14 (1867); Op 16, 17

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