Antonín (Josef Alois) Volanek

(1761-1817)

Antonín (Josef Alois) (Anton) Volanek (Wolanek) was a author of vocal and instrumental music; was born in Jaromer on the first November 1761, the same year of the composers Abeille, Alday, Cimador, Kunzen, Lefèbvre, Masek, Perotti, Stevenson, Trento. He died in Praga on the 16th Jenuary 1817

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of late Baroque

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"Die Maskerade im Serail oder Die grosse Löwenjagd" was performed in 1792 in Praga

"Der Schuster-Feierabend oder Kasperl, die fressende Schildwache" was performed on the 9th of September 1792 in Vienna (Landestheater)

"Der Schuster-Feierabend" was performed on the 31th of December 1793 in Praga (Vaterländisches T)

"Die Überraschung" was performed on the 20th of December 1797 in Lipsia

"Die Hochzeit auf dem Lande oder Hanns Klachel, dritter Teil" was performed in 1798 in Praga

"The Nightmare" (1781), oil on canvas, 127 x 102 cm, of the painter Johann Heinrich (Henry Fuseli) Fussli, contemporary of Volanek (Institute of the Arts, Detroit)

Antonín (Josef Alois) Volanek

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