December 20 - František Xaver Pokorný (The Musical Birthday Series, 2nd Annual Cycle)

František Xaver Pokorný (20 December 1729 – 2 July 1794) was a Czech composer and violinist. 

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Czeching In

“He wrote some 100 symphonies…” Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (8th ed.)

František Xaver Pokorný, whose name

  Was resonant, formal, and stately,

Never achieved international fame,

  A thing he accepted sedately.

With all of those symphonies, is it a shame

  That we haven’t encountered him lately?

They are there in the archives for us to reclaim,

  But I doubt that we’d benefit greatly.

 

 

 

 

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