Poem by zdenko fibich biography

Childhood (1850–1859)

Zdeněk Fibich was born on 21^st December 1850 at Všebořice near Dolní Kralovice (in what is now the Czech Republic) into the family of a forester Jan Fibich (1819-1882) and his wife Marie Fibichová née Römischová (1823-1891).

The parents had met during Jan's studies at the "k. k. Forst-Lehranstalt zu Mariabrunn“, a school for foresters, founded in 1813, in the Hadersdorf-Weidlingau district of today's Vienna.

Then, however, at the age of 42, Fibich fell madly in love with the much younger Anežka Schultz, whom he taught musical composition.

Lastly, it must be noted that Fibich was the first to write a Czech nationalist tone poem (Zaboj, Slavoj a Ludek) which served as the.

Zdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music.

This is probably an arrangement by Jan Kubelík taken from the Lento section of the symphonic poem At Twilight, Op

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For the little Zdeněk this meant growing up in a bilingual German-Czech environment, which was nothing unusual at the time. He spent his early childhood at the forest lodge in the deep woods around Všebořice, in nature that was to remain an important source of inspiration to him for the rest of his life.

His Symphony No. 1 is redolent of the mysterious atmosphere of the woods which he breathed during his early wanderings and games. On the father's side the Fibich family had been foresters and servants to the Auersperg