About Zdeněk Sádecký
Lived 1925 – 1971 (aged 46). Zdeněk Sádecký was a musicologist and teacher.
Zdeněk Sádecký (2 June 1925 – 28 December 1971) was a Czech musicologist.
Sádecký was born in Dvůr Králové nad Labem. Having received a doctorate in 1951 with the essay Boj za demokratickou piseň v obrození ("The struggle for democratic song in the Czech revival"), his early work focused on defining Czech musical socialist realism. With its decline in the late fifties, he drew his attention to the main Czech composers, including Leoš Janáček. He is reputed as one of the most prominent scholars of Josef Suk's musical aesthetic.
Sádecký died in 1971, in Prague.
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Czech musicologist
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Zdeněk Sádecký was born on 2 June 1925 in Dvůr Králové nad Labem.
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Zdeněk Sádecký died on 28 December 1971 in Prague.
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