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Otakar Hostinský

Czech historian, musicologist, and professor of musical aesthetics (1847-1910) · Writers · Died at 63

Otakar Hostinský was a Czech historian, musicologist, and professor of musical aesthetics.

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He is known primarily for his support of composer Bedřich Smetana and his contributions to Czech aesthetic theory, which influenced many cultural figures in early twentieth-century Prague, including Zdeněk Nejedlý, Otakar Zich, and Vladimír Helfert. He also wrote the opera librettos to Zdeněk Fibich's masterpiece, The Bride of Messina, and Josef Richard Rozkošný's Cinderella.

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Lived 1847 to 1910 · aged 63