Jan Novák

Czech composer and pianist

Jan Novák (8 April 1921, Nová Říše – 17 November 1984, Neu Ulm) was a Czech composer of classical music. Novák was primarily active in the 1960s and composed the music for several films of Karel Kachyňa. Novák also composed music for the films of animators Jiří Trnka and Karel Zeman, the leading figures of the Czech animated film, as well as for Wir (1982, TV film) (based on We, the 1921 Russian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin).

Jan Novák was also a Contemporary Latin poet, under the pen name Ianus Novak. In 1970 he was awarded the magna laus at the Amsterdam Latin poetry competition, the Certamen poeticum Hoeufftianum.

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Works

Apollo "Ter ave, tu arbiter artis"
Choreæ Philharmonicæ
Choreæ Philharmonicæ: I. Allegro
Choreæ Philharmonicæ: II. Moderato
Choreæ Philharmonicæ: III. Vivace
Concertino for Wind Quintet
Concertino for Wind Quintet: I. Allegro molto
Concertino for Wind Quintet: II. Adagio
Concertino for Wind Quintet: III. Allegro (Swingy)
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra: I. Allegro
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra: II. Andante
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra: III. Allegro molto
Echo "Imitari melicos docta modos"
Erato "Ego te vove hianti nimis oro"
Exercitia Mythologica
Midas "Criticos artis inertes superus"
Minerva "Rogito num tumeat bucca"
Orpheus "Fide tu suavisonati canis"
Terpsichore "Hilaris Terpsichore ter pede terram"
Tityrus "Amarylli, strepit"
V Měsíčné Noci