Jan Nepomuk Škroup (1811-1892) - Gradualia et Offertoria pro viginti festis (c.1870)

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Composer: Jan Nepomuk Škroup (1811-1892)
Work: Graduale in G (:Emitte spiritum:) & Offertorium in C (:Confirma hoc:) | Festo Pentecostes | a 4 Voci, 2 Violini, Viola, Violone, 2 Clarinetti, 2 Corni o Trombe, Timpani ed Organo (c.1870)
Software: Sibelius + Instruments samples + Choir samples (soprano)
World Premiere: Yes
Sheet music (pdf): https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/9/9c/Mh-SkrPent-Partitur.pdf
Sheet music (xml): https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/5/55/Mh-SkrPent-Partitur.mxl

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Jan Nepomuk Škroup [Škraup, Schkroup, Skaup]
(Osice, 15 September 1811 - Prague, 5 May 1892)

Bohemian composer, conductor and choirmaster, brother of František Škroup (1801-1882). In 1836 he became vice-Kapellmeister, and in 1838 choirmaster, of the Prague Estates Theatre, where he was appointed second Kapellmeister in 1840. From 1838 he was also a choirmaster of the Crusaders' church in Prague. In 1843 he conducted the bohemian opera performances in the Růžová Street Theatre, Prague, for whose opening he wrote Slavná overtura (‘Festival Overture’), in 1842. He left the theatre to become director of the Sophien-Akademie (1844-49; in 1846 he took part in preparations for Berlioz’s visit to Prague). From 1845 he was Kapellmeister at Prague Cathedral, where in 1856 he invited Franz Liszt to conduct his Missa solemnis, and from 1846 he was a singing teacher of the archiepiscopal seminary. Between 1874 and 1882 he resumed the post of second Kapellmeister and choirmaster of the Estates Theatre. Much of Škroup’s work, including some of his theoretical writings, is devoted to the church. He also wrote operas, songs, choral works, incidental music, overtures and other pieces. His son Karl Škroup (1851-1909) a critic, actor, producer and playwright, was director of Erfurt Theatre by 1909, while another son, Alfons Škroup, was Kapellmeister in Danzig (now Gdańsk) by 1864, and Kapellmeister and choirmaster in Bremen by 1870.