Rare autographed 6.5" x 10" presentation style photograph of the great Czech conductor on heavy stock, January 29, 1944. Half tone image.
Jaroslav
Krombholc (1918-1983) Czech conductor
He
came from a family of musicians and while in grammar school he became the only
private student of O.Ostrčil (1934/1935). After graduating from a grammar school in
Mělník in 1937, he studied composition with Otakar Šín at the Prague Conservatory and at Viteslav
Novák's master school (1937-1940), conducting with Pavel Dědeček (1938-1940)
and at the master school with Vaclav Talich (1940-1942). He also studied quarter-tone and six-tone
piano with Alois. Hába (1940-1942). In 1937-1939 (until the closure of Czech
universities due to the Nazi occupation) he studied German and French at the
Faculty of Arts of Charles University. He began as a talented composer and an
excellent pianist. He composed symphonic
and chamber works, but soon preferred conducting. As a conductor and composer he collaborated
with the E. F. Burian Theater (1939/1940). In 1940 Zdenek Chalabala invited him
to the National Theater where he was engaged from April 1, 1940 to December 30,
1943. A few months later he made his Czech Philharmonic debut. In addition to
his conducting at the National Theater, he also served as the head of the State
Theater Opera in Ostrava. After the War,
on June 11, 1945, Krombholc, Otakar Jeremiáš and Karel Nedbal were appointed as
the collective management of the National Theater Opera. In December 1948 he
was again appointed member of the opera management of the opera with Otakar
Jeremias. From September 1949, when he was appointed chief of opera at the
National Theater. Krombholc worked in
the National Theater until 15 September 1975, alternately in the positions of
conductor, chief conductor and opera chief (1968-1970). Even after his
departure to the post of chief of the Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
(1975-1978), he conducted the National Theater as a guest conductor. He has recorded
a number of radio and gramophone films both at home and abroad. He participated
in tours of the National Theater Opera in Moscow (1955), Berlin (1956) and
Brussels (1958). He studied for example Jenůfa (1947) and The Bartered Bride
(1947, 1948, 1958, 1959) in Vienna. He passed away at the age of 65 and is
buried in the family tomb in Mělník.
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