Jan Klusák (born in Prague on April 18th 1934) studied composition with Jaroslav Ridky and Pavel Borkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts (1953 - 57) in Prague. Since then he has been a freelance composer, theatre and film actor, prose-writer and author of libretti for his own operas. As a composer, his starting point was Neo-classicism (I. Stravinsky, S. Prokofjev, I. Krejci). Since the autumn of 1959 he started to compose for Libor Pesek's Chamber Harmonic Orchestra (Pictures for 12 Wind Instruments, Four Small Voice Exercises on Texts by F. Kafka, 1st Invention). This gave… read more
Jan Klusák (born in Prague on April 18th 1934) studied composition with Jaroslav Ridky and Pavel Borkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts (1953 - 57) in Prague. Since then he has been a freelance composer, theatre and film actor, prose-writer and author of libretti for his own operas. As a … read more
Jan Klusák (born in Prague on April 18th 1934) studied composition with Jaroslav Ridky and Pavel Borkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts (1953 - 57) in Prague. Since then he has been a freelance composer, theatre and film actor, prose-writer and author of libretti for his own operas. As a composer, his starting point was Neo-classicism (I. Stravinsky, S. Proko… read more