František Škroup

František Jan Škroup (June 3 1801, Osice near Hradec Králové - February 7 1862, Rotterdam) was a Czech composer and conductor. His brother Jan Nepomuk Škroup was also a successful composer and his father, Dominik Škroup, and other brother Ignác Škroup were lesser known composers. At the age of eleven he moved to Prague where he supported himself as a choir boy and flautist. He continued his schooling at one of the most important Czech national revival movement centres, Hradec Králové, where he was a choirboy at the cathedral. While there he studied with the local choirmaster and composer Franz Volkert (1767–1831). He later moved back to Prague to study at the university. He became a successful opera and singspiel composer producing more than a dozen stage works. He also produced an oratorio, a mass, and a few other sacred works. He is best remembered today as the author of the melody for the Czech national anthem "Kde domov můj".

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* [http://www.libri.cz/databaze/kdo18/search.php?zp=6&name=%A9KROUP+FRANTI%A9EK Biography (in Czech)]