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Vitezslava Kapralova
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| Born in Brno (Czech Republic) on Jan. 24th, 1915, Czech conductor and composer, she died in Montpellier (France), on June 16, 1940. Unique child of Vaclav Kapral, teacher at the Brno Conservatory and composer, Vitezslava started her career as a composer at nine. Her talent was remarkable and at the age of 15 she started to attend the Brno Conservatory, studying composition with Vilem Petrzelka and orchestra conduction with Zdenek Chalabala. The studies continued at the Conservatory in Praga with Vitezslav Novak (composition) and Vaclav Talich (conduction). She was awared by a scholarship to study in France in 1937, in the ECM in Paris. Her teacher was Charles Munch. She kept studying composition with the private teaching of Bohuslav Martinu and with Nadia Boulanger for a brief period. Vitezslava produced quite a large number of works, among which the Military Sinfonietta. This composition has been first performed by the Czech Philarmonic and chosen for the opening cerimony of the ISCM Festival (London, 1938). She was evacuated to Montpellier just before the German invasion of Paris. In Montpellier she died at the age of 25 on June 16, 1940.
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