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Performing groups

Name

Reference in name

Residence

Began

Ended

Janáček [1947] U

Leoš Janáček (1854–1928), composer

Czechoslovakia

1947

M T R

Notes

1947–49: JAMU Quartet (Janáčkova akademie múzických umění / Janáček Academy of the Performing Arts)

Additional references

Český hudební slovník osob a institucí (Czech Music Encycopedia of Persons and Institutions)

	Given name	Family name		Start	Stop
VIOLIN I	Jiří	Trávníček	b. 1925	1947	1973	d. 1973
	Bohumil	Smejkal	b. 1935	1973	1993	d. 2009
	Jiří	Novotný		1993	1996
	Miloš	Vacek		1996
VIOLIN II	Miroslav	Matyáš		1947	1952	d. 1997
	Adolf	Sýkora	b. 1931	1952	1993
	Notes He left the quartet at the end of 1993.
	Vítězslav	Zavadilík	b. 1951	1994
	Notes He joined the quartet at the beginning of 1994.
VIOLA	Jiří	Kratochvíl		1947	1989
	Ladislav	Kyselák	b. 1956	1989	2008
	Jan	Řezníček	b. 1959	2008
CELLO	Karel	Krafka	b. 1921	1947	1984	d. 1984
	Břetislav	Vybíral	b. 1955	1984