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Leoš Janáček

Czech composer (1854–1928).

Born July 3rd, 1854 in Hukvaldy. [ref]

Died August 12th, 1928 at 74 years old in Ostrava, Moravská Ostrava (pneumonia). [ref]

Occupations
choir director, composer, conductor, editing staff, folklorist, librettist, music critic, music educator, music theorist, musicologist, organist, pedagogue, teacher

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. Henry David Thoreau