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About Dr. Jan Johann Löwenbach / J. L. Budin
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Jan Loewenbach, an honorary member of SVU, was born on April 29, 1880 in Rychnov nad Kněžnou. He studied law, but music was a strong avocation. Combining the two areas of interest led, on the one hand, to a specialization in copyright law - he represented many of the prominent Czechoslovak composers - and to extensive music criticism and scholarship on the other. Dr. Loewenbach was also very active in musical organizations such as the Umelecká Beseda and its publishing division, the Hudební Matice; the Club of Czechoslovak Composers, which he himself founded; the International Society for Contemporary Music, and others. He and his family left Czechoslovakia before the Nazi occupation and lived for short periods in Switzerland, England and Cuba. Finally, in 1941, they settled in New York, where Dr. Loewenbach worked as press attache of the Czechoslovak Consulate during WWII. In 1946 Dr. and Ms. Loewenbach returned to Czechoslovakia, only to leave again in 1948. From the time he returned to New York until his death on August 13, 1972 he and his wife lived in semi-retirement. After Ms. Vilma Loewenbach’s death their daughter, Vera Bala now living in Canada, donated his papers and memorabilia through the SVU music section to the Malcolm A. Love Library of San Diego State Universi ty. Jan Loewenbach wrote criticism for a number of dailies and scholarly ar ticles for many music journals in Czechoslovakia. Later he contributed to New York Times, Musical Quarterly, Musical America, the British Slavonic Review, etc., mainly on Czechoslovak music. He is also the author of several entries in the Encyclopedia Americana. Among his larger studies are: Music in Independent Czechoslovakia (Prague, 1931, in Czech), Czechoslovak Music (New York, 1941), B. Smetana -- Genius of a Freedom Loving People (Washington, D.C., 1943), “Dvorak’s Significance in the Development of American Music” (in Tempo, 1946/47, in Czech), and many articles on Smetana, Dvorak, Novak, Suk, and other twentieth cen tury Czech composers. He also translated some Czech vocal works into Ger man and several works from German or English into Czech. He is the author of the librettos for Martinu’s opera The Soldier and the Dancer (1928) and Kricka’s The White Gentleman (1929). In addition to his writings he constantly promoted Czech music through lectures, exhibitions and organization of performances (e.g., of Dvorak’s Rusalka in Detroit and several of Janacek’s compositions in New York). His literary pseudonym was J. L. Budin.
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Dr. Jan Johann Löwenbach / J. L. Budin's Timeline
| 1880 |
April 29, 1880
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109, Rychnov Nad Kněžnou, Rychnov nad Kněžnou, Královéhradecký kraj, Czech Republic
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| 1912 |
January 1, 1912
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Prague, Czech Republic
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| 1914 |
May 11, 1914
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Prague, Czech Republic
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| 1972 |
August 13, 1972
Age 92
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New York, New York, United States
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