Axman, Emil

3. 6. 1887  Rataje - 25. 1. 1949 Praha
composer

While studying musicology and aesthetics at Charles University, he also studied music theory under Vítězslav Novák and Otakar Ostrčil. He was a member of the library of the National Museum, head of the music fund there, and after the end of the war he was its director for a year. Apart from his own work, he also collected folk music in Moravian Slovakia.

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