Miloslav IÅ¡tvan

Miloslav Istvan ( born September 2, 1928 in Olomouc, † January 26, 1990 in Brno ) was a Czech composer and music educator.

Ištvan took private lessons in composition with Vilém Petrželka and piano with František Maxián. From 1948 to 1952 he studied at the Leoš Janáček Academy composition with Jaroslav Kvapil. After postgraduate studies until 1956 he taught there until his death in 1990.

He belonged in the 1960s next to Alois Piňos Jan Novák and Zdeněk Pololáník one of Josef Berg initiated group of artists and later with Rudolf Růžička, Arnost Parsch and Miloš Štědroň a group to Piňos to. The followers of new music stood beside composers such as Miloslav Kabeláč Jan Rychlík, Zbynek Vostřák, Mark Kopelent Jan Klusák and Luboš Fiser in opposition to the official government cultural policy. They organized concerts and lectures, organized in 1969 and 1970 festivals of experimental music, founded an electro-acoustic studio and an orchestra for experimental music in broadcasting. All these activities were banned after the suppression of the Prague Spring in the early 1970s.

In 1980, Ištvan with friends and students of the Camerata Janáček Academy Brno for modern music. In addition to electro-acoustic works composed among others Ištvan the orchestral pieces Balada o Jihu, Zaklínání času and Hry, the oratory Kraska a Zvíře, Ommagio a JS Bach and the chamber cantata Já, Jákob texts by Petr Ulrych. With Miloš Štědroň he completed Josef Berg's opera Doktor Faust. His son RADOMÍR Ištvan became known as a composer.