Václav Rabas (organist)

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Václav Rabas (14 August 1933 – 20 April 2015) was a Czech organist and music teacher.

Biography

Rabas was born on 14 August 1933 in Dolní Bezděkov, Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the Prague Conservatory and from the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (prof. Jiří Rheinberger). He won the first prize in the Prague Spring International Organ Competition. He recorded for Czech Radio and Czech Television. He was a professor of the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and Conservatory in Pardubice (his students: Aleš Bárta, Pavel Svoboda etc.). He premiered some organ works of Petr Eben, Miloslav Kabeláč, Luboš Sluka, Klement Slavický etc.

Rabas died on 20 April 2015 in Pardubice, Czech Republic, at the age of 81.{{cite web |title=Zemřel varhanní virtuos, pedagog a publicista Václav Rabas. Bylo mu 81 let|url=https://www.irozhlas.cz/kultura_hudba/zemrel-varhanni-virtuos-pedagog-a-publicista-vaclav-rabas-bylo-mu-81-let_201504211518_mhromadka|publisher=Czech Radio|language=cs|date=2015-04-21|access-date=2023-06-15}}

References

External links

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Category:1933 births

Category:2015 deaths

Category:People from Chrudim District

Category:Czech classical organists

Category:Male classical organists

Category:Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni

Category:Prague Conservatory alumni

Category:Czechoslovak classical musicians

Category:20th-century Czech male musicians