Emil Hájek, , (March 3, 1886 March 17, 1974) was a

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pianist A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

(student of

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8September 18411May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predec ...

) and

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

of Czech descent. As a

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

at the

Belgrade Music Academy The University of Arts in Belgrade ( sr-cyr, Универзитет уметности у Београду, Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu) is a public university in Serbia. It was founded in 1957 as the Academy of Arts to unite four academies. ...

, he was one of the founders of modern Serbian pianistic school. He was also a founding member and first president of the

Association of Musical Artists of Serbia The Association of Musical Artists of Serbia (Serbian:''Udruženje muzičkih umetnika Srbije'', also known as ''UMUS'') is an association which gathers together musicians from Serbia who dedicated themselves to performing classical music. The g ...

. From 1920 to 1921, he served as director of the

Saratov Conservatory Sobinov Theatre Institute of the Saratov State Conservatory ( is a music conservatory in Russia. The conservatory in Saratov, was founded in 1912, and was the first provincial conservatory to be founded in Russia, after St Petersburg Conservatory ...

. His students included Serbian composer

Darinka Simic-Mitrovic Darinka Simic-Mitrovic (born February 19, 1937) is a Serbian author, composer and music educator. Biography Simic-Mitrovic was born in Belgrade. She earned a degree from the Music Academy in Belgrade in 1962, where her teachers included Emil H ...

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1886 births 1974 deaths Yugoslav pianists Academic staff of the University of Arts in Belgrade Musicians from Hradec Králové 20th-century Russian male musicians Academic staff of Saratov Conservatory {{Serbia-musician-stub