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Burian, Emil František

Born June 11, 1904, in Pilsen; died Aug. 9, 1959, in Prague. Czech director, composer, writer, and playwright.

Burian began his career in 1923 as a composer. In 1926 he began working as an actor in a variety of theaters. In 1927 he completed a studio course in composition at the Prague Conservatory. He is the composer of Before Sunrise, an opera based on a work by Hauptmann (1924); Mary sa, an opera based on a work by the Mrstík brothers (1938); the ballet Bassoon and Flute (1925); and symphonies, instrumental chamber music, and scores for plays and movies. He began his career as a director in dramatic theater in 1929. In 1933 he founded the D-34 Theater in Prague with the intention of presenting sharply political and highly topical works. Burian was especially noted for using a variety of genres, for combining words, music, and flowing movement, and for attempting to find new means of expression. His productions include Gorky’s Egor Bulychov and Others (1934) and Pogodin’s The Aristocrats (1935). Burian was also the author and director of two plays based on folklore, War (1935) and Folk Suite (1938). During the fascist occupation he was imprisoned in a concentration camp (1941-45). After the country was liberated, the plays Burian directed at the D-34 included Gorky’s Lower Depths (1951), Mayakovsky’s The Bedbug (1956), Schweik (based on Hasek’s novel), and Brecht’s Threepenny Opera.

WORKS

O nové divadlo: 1930-1940. Prague, 1946.

REFERENCES

Bachelis, T. “Teatr E. Buriana.” Teatr, no. 8, 1958.
Koóová, Z. Kronika Armàdniho umèleckého divadla. Prague, 1955. Divadlo, no. 7, 1959.

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No references found	Other composers of the Czech musical avant-garde who took up folklore to a limited degree included Alois Haba (Five Songs, 1944, the opera Mother, 1929), Pavel Borkovec (choral music Folk Sayings, 1936), and the director and composer Emil Frantisek Burian - largely because he wrote so much music for the stage. The Czech Interwar avant-garde as a revolution of return, civilism, ... by Haas, Petr / Czech Music All this perfectly harmonised with the vision of the period expressed by the Prague composer, singer and actor/director Emil Frantisek Burian (see CMQ 4/2004) in the first and for a long time the only Czech publication on jazz: "Electric vibration streams into the place where violets used to perfume the air and the half-witted moon used to shine romantically. Czech jazz up to 1948 by Vorisek, Martin / Czech Music We bring you a triple portrait of Emil Frantisek Burian, the man of vital importance for the interwar theatre avant-garde in this country, whose contribution to Czech music has still not been adequately recognised. Editorial by Bakla, Petr / Czech Music	emesis Emetic emetine emeu emf emi EMIF Emigrant Emigrant Aid Company Emigrant Springs State Heritage Area Emigrants, The Emigration Emigre Émigré émigré nobility Emigres, Russian Revolutionary Émigrés, Russian Revolutionary Emigres, White Émigrés, White Emil Abderhalden Emil Brunner Emil Condurachi Emil Eichhorn Emil Erlenmeyer Emil František Burian Emil Frantisek Burian Emil Gilels Emil Godlewski Emil Grigorevich Gilels Emil Hacha Emil Hácha Emil Hermann Fischer Emil Jannings Emil Kraepelin Emil Lask Emil Leon Post Emil Lovlien Emil Løvlien Emil Nolde Emil Petrovici Emil Staiger Emil Theodor Kocher Emil Von Behring Emil Zegadlowicz Emilchino Emile Emile Acollas Émile Acollas Emile Antoine Bourdelle Émile Antoine Bourdelle Emile Argand	émigré nobility emigree Emigres Emigres Émigrés Émigrés Emigres, Russian Revolutionary Émigrés, Russian Revolutionary Emigres, White Émigrés, White Emii EMIJ EMIJ Signal Processing And Communications Set Emil Emil Abderhalden Emil Adolf von Behring Emil Bohuslav Frida Emil Brunner Emil Chronicle Online Emil Condurachi Emil Durkheim Emil Eichhorn Emil Erlenmeyer Emil Erlenmeyer Emil Fischer Emil František Burian Emil Frantisek Burian Emil Gilels Emil Godlewski Emil Grigorevich Gilels Emil Grigorievich Gilels Emil Grigoryevich Gilels Emil Grygoryevich Gilels Emil Hacha Emil Hácha Emil Hansen Emil Hermann Fischer Emil Hermann Fischer Emil Jannings Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs Emil Kraepelin Emil Kraepelin Emil Lask Emil Leon Post Emil Lovlien Emil Løvlien Emil Nestor Setälä Emil Nolde Emil Novak Ovarian Tumor Registry Emil Palade Emil Petrovici Emil Post Emil Staiger

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Other composers of the Czech musical avant-garde who took up folklore to a limited degree included Alois Haba (Five Songs, 1944, the opera Mother, 1929), Pavel Borkovec (choral music Folk Sayings, 1936), and the director and composer Emil Frantisek Burian - largely because he wrote so much music for the stage.

The Czech Interwar avant-garde as a revolution of return, civilism, ... by Haas, Petr / Czech Music

All this perfectly harmonised with the vision of the period expressed by the Prague composer, singer and actor/director Emil Frantisek Burian (see CMQ 4/2004) in the first and for a long time the only Czech publication on jazz: "Electric vibration streams into the place where violets used to perfume the air and the half-witted moon used to shine romantically.

Czech jazz up to 1948 by Vorisek, Martin / Czech Music

We bring you a triple portrait of Emil Frantisek Burian, the man of vital importance for the interwar theatre avant-garde in this country, whose contribution to Czech music has still not been adequately recognised.

Editorial by Bakla, Petr / Czech Music