Jiří Pauer was a Czech composer.

Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory

Prague Conservatory

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 with Alois Hába

Alois Hába

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, and finally with Pavel Bořkovec

Pavel Borkovec

Pavel Bořkovec was a Czech composer and music teacher.Bořkovec studied at the Prague Conservatory under Josef Suk. From 1946 to 1967 he taught at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague. His students there included Pavel Blatný, Jiří Pauer, Vladimír Sommer, Petr Eben, Jan Klusák and Jan Truhlář...

 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

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. He later taught for many years at the Academy where his pupils included composer Jiří Gemrot

Jiří Gemrot

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. He has composed many pieces, many of which focus on the brass orchestral instruments, symphonies, and further orchestra pieces, a horn concerto and a trumpet concerto, chamber music pieces, and piano pieces. His opera Zdravý nemocný, based on Molière

Molière

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's Le Malade imaginaire, premiered at the Prague National Theatre

National Theatre (Prague)

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 on 22 May 1970.

In 1989 Jiří Pauer was dismissed from his post as general director of the National Theatre in Prague, because of his support for the policies of the former Communist Czechoslovak government. Pauer had locked staff out of the National and Smetana theatres on 17 November 1989 to prevent the opera, ballet and drama companies from staging protest performances. After a three-week strike Pauer was replaced by Ivo Žídek

Ivo Žídek

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Selected works

• Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, 1949
• Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, 1957
• Wind Quintet, 1961
• 12 Duets for Viola and Cello, 1969–1970
• Concert Music, 1971
• Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, 1972
• Trompetitna for Trumpet and Piano, 1972
• Trombonetta for Trombone and Piano, 1974–1975
• Intrada for 3 Pianos, 3 Trumpets, and 3 Trombones, 1975
• Tubonetta for Tuba and Piano, 1976
• Hymn for communist party, 1977
• Characters for Brass Quintet, 1977–1978
• 12 Duets for 2 Trompets (or Horns), 1983
• Trio for 3 Horns, 1986